Benoît Jacquot’s production of Massenet’s tragic opera explores the conflict between duty and our most passionate desires.
Credits
- Music
- Jules Massenet
- Libretto
- Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann
- Director
- Benoît Jacquot
- Set and lighting designer
- Charles Edwards
- Costume designer
- Christian Gasc
- Performed by
- The Royal Opera
Performers
- Conductor
- Antonio Pappano
- Werther
- Vittorio Grigòlo
- Charlotte
- Joyce DiDonato
- Albert
- David Bizic
- Sophie
- Heather Engebretson
- The Bailli
- Jonathan Summers
- Johann
- Yuriy Yurchuk
- Schmidt
- François Piolino
- Brühlmann
- Rick Zwart
- Käthchen
- Emily Edmonds
- Concert master
- Vasko Vassilev
- Orchestra
- Orchestra of the Royal Opera House