Opera Great Hall

May

Werther 32 Opera & Ballet Season

Jules Massenet

Season:

2017/2018

May, 09

8 p.m.

May, 11

8 p.m.

May, 13

6 p.m.

Approximate duration

1st Act: 40 minuts

2nd act: 32 minutes

30 minuts intermidiate

20 minutes 2nd intermidiate

3rd act: 50 minutes

Price

from 10 to 65 euros

The extreme romanticism of Wherter
It is a luxury to have on our program Graham Vick, one of the most prestigious international directors of today’s lyrical universe. His impressive version of Werther, which come to us from Lisbon’s Teatro São Carlos, underscores certain features of his artistic brilliance: a heightened sense of the spectacular, the interpretive subtlety that he commands of the singers, his constant experimentation with the great works of the opera repertoire and the rigorous respect for the original essentials shaped by its authors. The opera of Jules Massenet, which is being performed at Teatre Principal for the first time, encompasses with its delicate harmonies the struggles of the young Werther, a character illuminated by Goethe as paradigm of extreme Romanticism. The director Cristóbal Soler leads a compact cast including figures such as Giusepe Filianoti, Monica Bacelli, Joan Martín Royo, Tomeu Bibiloni and Mikeldi Atxalandabaso. Sensuality, fatalism, painful love, dilemmas of consciousness, duels between reason and the heart… Welcome to this cocktail mixed out of passion and torment.

Production of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon

Musical Director

Cristóbal Soler

Scene Director

Graham Vick

Scenographer

Timothy O'Brian

Lighting design

Robert Jones

Cast

Werther: Josep Bros, Charlotte: Monica Bacelli, Sophie: Irene Mas, Albert: Joan Martín Royo, Le Bailli: Jorge Tello, Johann: Tomeu Bibiloni, Schmidt: Mikeldi Atxalandabaso

Orchestra

Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears

With

Cor Juvenil / Cor Petitons / Cor Infantil Teatre Principal de Palma

Musical Director

Cristóbal Soler

Scene Director

Graham Vick

Scenographer

Timothy O'Brian

Lighting design

Robert Jones

Cast

Werther: Josep Bros, Charlotte: Monica Bacelli, Sophie: Irene Mas, Albert: Joan Martín Royo, Le Bailli: Jorge Tello, Johann: Tomeu Bibiloni, Schmidt: Mikeldi Atxalandabaso

Orchestra

Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears

With

Cor Juvenil / Cor Petitons / Cor Infantil Teatre Principal de Palma
Can Balaguer
Share:

Side event

Notes on Werther

Conference in collaboration with the Friends of the Opera of the Teatre Principal Spaeakers: Kiko Cañellas and Carlos Forteza

May 8, 2018

7:30 p.m. hours

Place

Can Balaguer