Werther Montpellier

Charlotte only married Albert out of duty but continues to love Werther without admitting it to herself and even less to him The young man despairs at seeing his advances rejected and will not taste the love that the young woman comes to confess too late Adapted from Goethes novel Jules Massenets opera Werther is a jewel of French lyric repertoire Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie shares the sober and elegant staging by Bruno Ravella his Rosenkavalier was recently enjoyed on OperaVision and invites the famous Canadian contralto MarieNicole Lemieux to sing Charlotte for the first time alongside a young and almost exclusively Frenchspeaking cast conducted by JeanMarie Zietouni