This concert performance of WERTHER at the Deutsche Oper Berlin features Jonathan Tetelman and Aigul Akhmetshina.
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Stan Hema
Concert performances of WERTHER at the Deutsche Oper Berlin have often offered the opportunity to experience the great tenors of their time in the role of the suicidal poet.
Following Alfredo Kraus in 1998 and Vittorio Grigolo in 2014, this time it is the turn of the US-American Jonathan Tetelman, who has already introduced himself to Berlin audiences in IL TRITTICO, TOSCA and FRANCESCA DA RIMINI.
At his side, Aigul Akhmetshina, one of the most exciting female singer discoveries of recent years, sings the role of Charlotte ...
Conductor: Enrique Mazzola
With
Jonathan Tetelman, Aigul Akhmetshina, Dean Murphy, Lilit Davtyan, Michael Bachtadze, Chance Jonas-O'Toole, Gerard Farreras and others.
One of the astonishing facts of music history is that almost all of the great operas based on Goethe were written in France. Alongside Gounod's and Berlioz's Faust settings and Ambroise Thomas's MIGNON, Jules Massenet's WERTHER is the most prominent example in this series.
Premiered in Vienna in 1892, the work is also one of Massenet's most successful operas and, in its expressive immediacy, a pinnacle of the "drame lyrique".
Additional information
In French with German and English surtitles.
- Opera in four acts
- Libretto by Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, based on the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- First performance on 16 February 1892 in Vienna
- Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 23 July 2025
Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance
Participating artists
Enrique Mazzola (Musikalische Leitung)
Jonathan Tetelman (Werther)
Aigul Akhmetshina (Charlotte)
Dean Murphy (Albert)
Lilit Davtyan (Sophie)
Michael Bachtadze (Der Amtmann)
Chance Jonas-O'Toole (Schmidt)
Gerard Farreras (Johann)
N. N. (Brühlmann)
Alexandra Oomens (Käthchen)
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)
Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre)
Dates
July 2025
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