A Tragic Love Story

The Florida Grand Opera presents Jules Massenet's triumphant, iconic and tragic Opera, Werther, as part of their 2018/2019 season. Based on the somewhat autobiographical novel 'The Sorrows Of Young Werther' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Massenet's Opera delves into the heartbreaking theme of forbidden love.

Hopeless romantic Werther falls instantly in love with the young and beautiful Charlotte. Although she is betrothed to another, by her late mother's wishes, Werther sets out to win her affections. In a series of eloquent letters Werther vies for Charlotte's love, however with every re-buff Werther becomes increasingly more desperate, when the final rejection comes Werther takes the matter into his own tragic hands...