Type the words "music and suicide" into an internet search engine and you'll quickly find any number of theories about the types of music most likely to encourage suicidal tendencies — ranging from ...

In Act 3, when Charlotte asks Werther to read from some poetry he's been translating, he chooses a passage about the poet anticipating his own death, singing it in the aria, "Pourquoi me reveleiller?" ...

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There is great merit in an opera that exists for sheer pleasure. An opera whose music washes over you, bathes you in sweet melody while it amplifies the emotional quotient. An opera without much of a ...

Composer Jules Massenet finished Werther in 1887, but it wasn't premiered until 1892, in Vienna. Act One: The setting is a small, German town. The first act takes place in July, at the home of the ...

Premiered in 1892 it’s one of opera’s greatest depictions of impossible love, Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. A sensation when it appeared in 1774 (and ...

The Opera Circle singers captured those emotions, acting with simple gestures and using their voices as if engaged in inner monologues or conversation. In the snug space of Tucker Hall, no one had to ...

Rolando Villazón is back. That was the overriding headline of this highly emotional revival of Massenet’s heartbreaker. The other was how and why Benoit Jacquot’s painterly staging came to be so ...

Music, no matter how innocent and lovely it might seem, can still convey some truly dire emotions. You may remember a romantic hit from the 60s, "The End of the World" by Skeeter Davis. It features a ...