Werther received its premiere on February 16, 1892 in a German version translated by Max Kalbeck at the Imperial Theatre Hofoper in Vienna.

His greatest successes were Manon in 1884, Werther in 1892, and Thaïs in 1894. Notable later operas were Le jongleur de Notre-Dame, produced in 1902, and Don Quichotte, produced in Monte Carlo 1910, with the legendary Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin in the title-role.

* April 19-Jules Massenet's opera " Werther " is premiered in New York City.

He became known for his beautiful sound, and became the saxophone soloist in the Garde, which caused him to be asked to play in concerts with orchestras and also in the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique ( although almost exclusively for Massenet's Werther, as this was the only opera in the repertoire that called for an orchestral saxophone ).

Werther is an opera (' Drame lyrique ') in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, based on the German epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, based partly on fact and Goethe's own early life.

Werther entered the repertoire at the Opéra-Comique in 1903 in a production supervised by Albert Carré, and over the next half-century the opera was performed over 1, 100 times there, Léon Beyle becoming a distinguished interpreter of Werther.

She performed the opera Werther with Andrea Bocelli for the Michigan Opera Theatre, the first opera broadcast on the Internet in its entirety in 1999.

Chirps from electronic birds at the beginning, mixed with a slow beat and sounds of a piano leads to Sandra's whispers and ends with some samples of Callas singing the aria Ces lettres, ces lettres from the opera Werther by Massenet.

In 2003, he directed Massenet's opera Werther conducted by Antonio Pappano at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

The 2008-2009 season included Verdi's Otello, Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, a showcase of baroque opera, Massenet's Werther, and a special concert version of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta.

" This opera is based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther.

A similar phenomenon, though not under the same name, occurred during the German Sturm und Drang movement, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats.

In the novel, Werther commits suicide with a pistol after he fails to get the girl he desires.

The Ahmanson Theatre's publicist Ken Werther, assisted Colette Joel in orchestrating the entire cast of Dead End, to meet with all of the family members of the original ' Dead End Kids '.

Among the operas he conducted for the company were Handel's Julius Caesar starring Janet Baker and Valerie Masterson ; five Janáček operas ; The Marriage of Figaro with pioneering use of 18th century performing style ; Massenet's Werther ; Donizetti's Mary Stuart with Baker ; and Sullivan's Patience.

Moving to Paris in 1803, he became friendly not only with the like-minded Ducis, but also with the sceptical Cabanis ; and it was on this philosopher's advice that, in order to catch the public ear, he produced the romance of Lina, which Sainte-Beuve has characterized as a mingled echo of Florian and Werther.

One of the Neopets plots, " Journey to The Lost Isle " is based on this book, with Roxton A. Colchester III, Hugo & Lillian Fairweather, and Werther as the adventurers, with Captain Rourke and Scrap as the guides.

* Massenet: Werther ( 1999 ) -- CD As Charlotte with Vladimir Jurowski & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

* Loveless ( with Marcelo Frusin, Danijel Žeželj and Werther Dell ' Edera, 2005-2008 ) collected as:

* Charlotte in Massenet's Werther, with conductor Sir Colin Davis, Philips 1980.

In fact, Carossa's Doktor Bürgers Ende of 1913 had too much in common with Werther, not only in its motivation, but also in form and plot, to be an original artistic creation.

As with some modern bestsellers, Werther spawned what today would be called a spin-off industry with items such as Werther eau de cologne and porcelain puppets depicting the main characters, being sold in large numbers.

The Lettere di Jacopo Ortis, inspired by Goethe's Werther, are a love story with a mixture of patriotism ; they contain a violent protest against the Treaty of Campo Formio, and an outburst from Foscolo's own heart about an unhappy love-affair of his.

In 1978, he first conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, making his debut with Werther.

* 1774: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe first published

Goethe's novel was published in 1774 and not long after young men began to mimic the character Werther by dressing in yellow pants and blue jackets.

The state of mind produced by that shock is reflected in his novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis ( The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis ) ( 1798 ), which was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as a more politicized version of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, " for the hero of Foscolo embodies the mental sufferings and suicide of an undeceived Italian patriot just as the hero of Goethe places before us the too delicate sensitiveness embittering and at last cutting short the life of a private German scholar.

* Dark Entries by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell ' Edera, 2009

Mainstays of the repertory at the Opéra-Comique during its history have included the following works which have each been performed more than 1, 000 times by the company: Cavalleria Rusticana, Le chalet, La dame blanche, Le domino noir, La fille du régiment, Lakmé, Manon, 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.

** The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

* Jules Massenet: Werther conducted by Kent Nagano ( 1997 ) Elektra

* The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

After a hiatus of six years she returned to the Met in 1982 and remained a pillar of the ensemble, higly appreciated by critics and loved by the public in such roles as Idamante in Idomeneo, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites, Cherubino, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Charlotte in Werther and Hanna Glawary in The Merry Widow.

While his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, featured a hero driven to suicide by despair, the eponymous hero of this novel undergoes a journey of self-realization.

This was followed by the tragedy of Thirsci ( 1784 ); Ferdinand and Constantia ( 1785 ), another Werther novel ; and The Patriots ( 1784 ), a tragedy.

Historic ( vocal ) -- Massenet: Werther ; Georges Thill ( ten ), Vallin ( mez ) Roque ( bar ), Faraldy ( sop ), Narcon ( bass ); Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera-Contique, Elie Cohen ( cnd ); EMI

Many of the female guards had served at small Gross Rosen subcamps at Neusalz, Langenleuba, and the Mittelbau-Dora subcamp at Gross Werther.

The young Goethe told his sister in 1766 that he was learning English from Young and Milton, and in his autobiography he confessed that the Young's influence had created the atmosphere in which there was such a universal response to his seminal work The Sorrows of Young Werther.

His romances are forgotten, although Das Leben und die Meinungen des Herrn Magister Sebaldus Nothanker ( 1773-1776 ), and his satire on Goethe's Werther, Freuden des jungen Werthers ( 1775 ), had a certain reputation in their day.

It was natural that Carossa should attempt, as his literary idol Goethe had done in Werther, to write his way out of his most perplexing problems.

In 1922, the author of Doktor Bürger, which had been so glaringly modelled on Goethe's Werther, published the first volume of his autobiography, Eine Kindheit.

Herwarth von Bittenfeld was born in Werther, Thuringia, into an aristocratic family which had supplied many distinguished officers to the Prussian army.