Werther - Act III Duet (Joyce DiDonato and Vittorio Grigòlo, The Royal Opera)

Benoît Jacquot’s production of Massenet’s tragic opera explores the conflict between duty and our most passionate desires. Joyce DiDonata and Vittorio Grigòlo sing the Act III Duet. To book tickets or find out more about the Royal Opera House, head to www.roh.org.uk/productions/we....
Jules Massenet began thinking about making an opera from Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774; The Sorrows of Young Werther) as early as 1880, before he started work on Manon - though in his memoirs he claimed inspiration came in 1886 during a visit to Bayreuth to see Wagner’s Parsifal. He began the score in 1885 and finished it in 1887, but Werther’s premiere did not come until 1892, when the Vienna Hofoper requested another Massenet work after the success of the local premiere of Manon. It has been a permanent part of the international repertory since 1903. Werther and Manon have proved Massenet’s most enduringly popular works.
The excellent libretto, prepared by Edouard Blau and Paul Milliet, distills Goethe’s Romantic masterpiece - their shortened version intensifies and makes more romantic Goethe’s depiction of two passionate people who inadvertently cause each other pain. Its spareness affords Massenet the opportunity to make his music not only delve into the psyches of the central couple but also describe the damage they cause to Sophie and Albert. The score displays Massenet’s gift for melody, with the ‘Clair de lune’, ‘Lied d’Ossian’ and Charlotte’s Act III soliloquy now some of his most loved music. Director Benoît Jacquot’s 2004 production for The Royal Opera, with elegant set designs by Charles Edwards, makes manifest the opera’s theme of keeping up appearances while torrid passions rage beneath.

[@brachio8695]

Really really love both of them! amazing singing bravissimi!!

[@hoshisbones8375]

This some gud shit right here

[@brunoleal7708]

La version de Jonas Kaufmann 2010, à Paris, est-elle le parangon d’interprétation pour ce rôle de Werther .

[@buddy208]

STAN OPERA 😩🙌

[@tingtingwupiano]

I’m in love this guy’s passion and singing!!!!!

[@sudemm.rana2006]

❤👍

[@w1bs600]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤩

[@fionakaiser9870]

Omg I must sing this song! First step: find a guy to sing with...

[@fionakaiser9870]

Fritz Wunderlich i obviously have the oposite problem but that is mainly because I don’t go to a school with any opera lovers or singers. :(

[@hoshisbones8375]

Fritz Wunderlich cooler Name hehe Wunderlich hehe

[@hilalpolat161]

Güzel

[@maribelgonzalez8670]

☝👏🌹😊

[@GoranVONKarkin]

Grigolo, voice is amazing, but text is wrong !!!

[@henkknaap8781]

To many movements ! Like acting in a silent movie...
The voices are great, less over acting will make it true emotional.

[@aloudialoudi8783]

Boo

[@ESilva-gw9ig]

Sorry but this is not good. Try Kaufmann and Sophie Koch for a much better singing.

[@dieterflorian865]

E. Silva Look at the Werther of Bologna, Zürich or just in ROH London with Juan Diego Flórez and You will See the Great different of Acting and singing 🎵🎵🎵

[@ESilva-gw9ig]

@@dieterflorian865 Thanks my dear. I will follow your sugestion. Regards.

[@eroupopper]

I need to see that!!!

[@bauchmann9971]

Better singing???!!!😂😂😂

[@melb3769]

IMO...While this is lovely, There r some parts that only Jonas Kaufmann should sing...This is one of them.

[@user-en2fx3vl6h]

Those aren't opera singers they are a joke 🃏