Lyric drama in three parts, four acts in French, with Hungarian and English surtitles.

​​​​​​​Goethe dashed out The Sorrows of Young Werther in all of six weeks. The novel, which relates, through a series of letters, the hopeless love of a young poet who chooses death to escape his torments, became an immediate best seller, at a stroke both catapulting its author to fame and launching the Werther cult: women perfumed themselves with Eau de Werther, Werther attire was hawked to men, while a noticeable spike in suicides ensued across Germany.

With exquisite sensitivity, Jules Massenet found the musical and dramatic language to transform the German epistolary novel into one of the most heart-wrenching love stories in the operatic literature.

This performance was recodred at the Hungarian State Opera House on the 6th of June 2017.

Source:
opera.hu

Place: Hungarian State Opera

Address: 1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 22.