Benoït Jacquot’s Royal Opera production, here revived by Andrew Sinclair, is now 15 years old, but it ain’t broke and doesn’t need fixing. Large, striking sets capture lighting effects by Charles ...

Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) unleashes Jules Massenet's melodic, romantic French opera Werther from its late 18th Century German source material, bringing it to an early-20th-Century arrondissement ...

Jules Massenet’s “Werther” is a staple of the European opera house repertory, but its Goethe-inspired protagonist remains an infrequent visitor to American shores. Despite the fact that the opera ...

The Boston Public Library’s Abbey Room filled with song Thursday night as cast members from Boston Lyric Opera’s upcoming production of “Werther” performed short excerpts from the opera for a packed ...

Massenet's "Werther," which returned to the War Memorial Opera House on Wednesday night for the first time in 25 years, is not so much tragic as gloom laden, a fraught tale of missed connections and ...

One of the saddest regressions in Baltimore’s cultural life has been on the operatic front, with the gradual fading away of professional, fully staged productions. The last company to attempt them, ...

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars as the tortured poet in the Met’s new production of Jules Massenet’s Werther on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, July 20 at 12 pm on PBS. (In New York, THIRTEEN airs ...

Massenet fans have been unusually well-provided for this season, beginning in September with Odyssey Opera’s local premiere of the composer’s grand opera “Le Cid.” And on Friday, Boston Lyric Opera ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Who said that Puccini and Tchaikovsky gave us the height of operatic passion? Try the later stages of this revival of ...