Werther, Royal Opera, ROH, Covent Garden, June 2016
Posted on 19 June 2016After recently witnessing a famous opera contaminated by a director desperate to make his mark, it was a pleasure to relax into the comforting common sense of a production that serves both story and music. This fine revival of BenoĆ®t Jacquot’s very successful 2011 production by Andrew Sinclair sees a few changes. The persistently intrusive …