Werther
1892 opera by Jules Massenet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the opera by Massenet. For other uses, see Werther (disambiguation).
Werther is an opera (drame lyrique) in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, which was based both on fact and on Goethe's own early life. Earlier examples of operas using the story were made by Kreutzer (1792) and Pucitta (1802).[1]
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drame lyrique by Jules Massenet | |
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Language | French |
Based on | Die Leiden des jungen Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
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