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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Jules Massenet’s “Werther” is a staple of the European opera house repertory, but its Goethe-inspired protagonist remains an infrequent visitor to American shores. Despite the fact that the opera ...

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 ...

Operas come together in all sorts of ways. Companies usually plan their seasons years in advance, but there are exceptions. Jules Massenet’s “Werther,” onstage at Houston Grand Opera between Jan. 27 ...

Massenet's "Werther," which returned to the War Memorial Opera House on Wednesday night for the first time in 25 years, is not so much tragic as gloom laden, a fraught tale of missed connections and ...

This revival of Benoît Jacquot’s 2004 staging of Massenet’s tragedy sees Antonio Pappano and his orchestra on top form. Kaufmann was not at full strength but Aigul Akhmetshina’s Charlotte shone Few ...

Antonio Pappano and the ROH orchestra outshine the drama in this atmospheric revival of Benoît Jacquot’s 2004 production Carefully rehearsed by Andrew Sinclair, the current revival of French film ...

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 ...