The Metropolitan Opera: Werther
MovieTitle | The Metropolitan Opera: Werther |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Mar 15, 2014 |
Genre | Music, Drama |
Director | Gary Halvorson |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | The Metropolitan Opera |
Run time | 142 min. |
Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings aching intensity and vocal charisma to the tortured title hero of Massenet’s Goethe adaptation. Sophie Koch, in her Met debut, is an appealing and elegant Charlotte, the object of Werther’s passionate affection that will lead to tragedy. Lisette Oropesa as Sophie, David Bižić as Albert, and Jonathan Summers as Le Bailli co-star. Richard Eyre’s atmospheric production is conducted by rising maestro Alain Altinoglu.