Werther

Werther Jules Massenet Opéra Bastille Duration: 2h50 with 1 intermission Language: French Supertitles: French / English "Werther has caused more suicides than the most beautiful woman in the world," wrote Mme de Staël.

Indeed, Goethe's first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, constituted for an entire generation a literary and aesthetic shock, foreshadowing Romanticism.

Composed a century later, at the end of the nineteenth century, Jules Massenet's opera draws inspiration from the novel and dissects the sentiment of love. ". Summit of French opera, the work returns to the Paris National Opera in a new production.

Wanting to restore its proper place to the epistolary form of Goethe's novel, Robert Carsen places literature at the center of his staging by setting the action in a vast library.

) Léo Vermot-Desroches Werther Aigul Akhmetshina Charlotte Gordon Bintner Albert Sandra Hamaoui Sophie (11 Feb. > 2 March) Johanna Wallroth Sophie (6 > 12 March) Laurent Naouri Le Bailli Christophe Mortagne Schmidt