Beautiful Music sung in magnificent fashion: Houston Grand Opera's Werther at the Wortham Center. HouGrandOpera WorthamCenter
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is slight in the extreme. Librettists Blau. Milliet and Hartman pared the book down to its core. Politics is out, social satire is out, his wanderings through Europe out. They keep the unconsummated love plot. And Massenet runs with it brilliantly. French film director Benois Jacquot botches even this simple plot by having Charlotte plant a big wet one on Werther in Act III, giving herself away before the Act IV reveal in Werther's bloody garret. Jacquot is partially responsible for the hideous sets in Acts I and II and the unchangeable costumes for all the characters. Time passes, but nobody wears different clothes. It must be symbolic.
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