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    Werther is an opera (drame lyrique) in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the...
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    Kestner. The novel was adapted as the opera Werther by Jules Massenet in 1892. Most of The Sorrows of Young Werther, a story about a young man's extreme...
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  • Werther is an opera by Jules Massenet. Werther may also refer to: Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia, a town in western Germany Werther, Thuringia, a municipality...
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  • Turn of the Screw Die Walküre Werther Wozzeck List of major opera composers List of operas by composer List of operas by title Orrey & Milnes 1987, p...
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  • Werther is a 130-minute studio album of Jules Massenet's opera, performed by a cast led by José Carreras, Frederica von Stade, Sir Thomas Allen, Isobel...
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    is known as the Werther effect, after rumours of such a spike following the publication of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Suicides occasionally...
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    Mignon, Les noces de Jeannette, Le pré aux clercs, Tosca, La bohème, Werther and Carmen, the last having been performed more than 2,500 times. Since...
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    Jules Massenet (category French male opera composers)
    era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892). He also composed...
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    Jonas Kaufmann (category 20th-century German male opera singers)
    Butterfly for EMI. In January 2010, he took the title role in Massenet's Werther at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. The performance was recorded and released on DVD...
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    from the Paris Opera he composed Le Cid (1885). After Esclarmonde (1889) he had several failures, until reaching success again with Werther (1892), on Goethe's...
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    Jonathan Tetelman (category 21st-century American male opera singers)
    also appeared as Alfredo at the Royal Opera House, as Pinkerton at the Opéra Comédie in Montpellier, and as Werther at the Teatro Solís in Montevideo. After...
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    This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly...
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    Rolando Villazón (category 20th-century Mexican male opera singers)
    He made his debut as a stage director with a new production of Werther at the Opéra de Lyon in January 2011. Since then, he has directed L'elisir d'amore...
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  • Mezzo-soprano (category Italian opera terminology)
    roles in operas (*denotes a lead role): Adalgisa, Norma (Bellini) Ariadne, The Minotaur (Birtwistle) Carmen, Carmen (Bizet)* Charlotte, Werther (Massenet)*...
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  • Isobel Buchanan (category 21st-century Scottish women opera singers)
    her repertoire with Sophie in Massenet's Werther and a Flower Maiden in Wagner's Parsifal at the Royal Opera House in 1979.[citation needed] Since then...
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  • Thaïs (French pronunciation: [ta.is]) is an opera, a comédie lyrique in three acts and seven tableaux, by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis...
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    French opera is both the art of opera in France and opera in the French language. It is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing...
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    Benjamin Bernheim (category 21st-century French male opera singers)
    Liceu in Barcelona, and made his role debut as Werther in a new production by Romain Gilbert at the Opéra national de Bordeaux. In 2020 he was named "Artiste...
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  • Richard Leech (tenor) (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    Don José (Carmen), Werther (Werther) and Turridu (Cavalleria rusticana). He sang over 175 performances at The Metropolitan Opera where he made his debut...
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  • Aria: The Opera Album is Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's fourth studio album, released in April 1998. The album was recognised as "best selling album of...
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  • Franco Corelli (category 20th-century Italian male opera singers)
    1921 – 29 October 2003) was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Associated in particular with the spinto and...
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    Asmik Grigorian (category 21st-century women opera singers)
    Eugene Onegin, Sweeney Todd, and Massenet's Werther. Grigorian later performed at the Latvian National Opera (in 2005 under the direction of Andres Jaegers)...
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  • faded somewhat after the First World War, but Werther and Manon still make regular appearances in the opera house. Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) English composer...
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    Opera Studio under the auspices of the Bolshoi Theatre, though it later severed its connection with the theatre. Its successful production of Werther...
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    Rihab Chaieb (category 21st-century Canadian women opera singers)
    performance of Werther at Opera Vlaanderen under conductor Giedrė Šlekytė, portrayed the role of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Cincinnati Opera, sang for...
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  • complete list of operas by the French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). Several of Massenet's operas were premiered by the Opéra-Comique in Paris,...
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    Houston Grand Opera. It is based on the television film and book The House Without a Christmas Tree by Gail Rock. Werther, Massenet's 1892 opera in which the...
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    Alfredo Kraus (category 20th-century Spanish male opera singers)
    he brought to opera's bel canto roles. He was also considered an outstanding interpreter of the title role in Massenet's opera Werther, and especially...
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    musical theatre actor, starring in Singin' in the Rain, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Grease, The Three Musketeers, Jack the Ripper, The Count of Monte Cristo...
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    November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), and joined a thriving intellectual and cultural environment under...
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