Werther is a 130-minute studio album of Jules Massenet's opera, performed by a cast led by José Carreras, Frederica von Stade, Sir Thomas Allen, Isobel Buchanan and Robert Lloyd with the orchestra of
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Jules Massenet photographed by Eugène Pirou in 1895, three years after Werther was first performed (in a German translation)
A poster advertising Werther's 1893 first performance in French
Michel Plasson
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Plasson was a student of Lazare Lévy at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1962, he was a prize-winner at the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors. He studied briefly in the United Stat
Werther (Colin Davis recording)
…act. Alan Blyth reviewed the album on LP in Gramophone in October 1981, comparing it with recordings of the opera conducted by Riccardo Chailly and Michel Plasson He approved of most of Davis's principal soloists almost unreservedly. Robert Lloyd was a "sonorous, flexible Bailiff", "idiomatic in French". Isobel…
Michel Plasson
Michel Plasson conducting Fidelio in Toulouse, 1975.