Rene Leibowitz: Massenet Scenes from Werther

The great Scenes from Werther (RCA, 1962)

Rene Leibowitz conducts the Rome Opera House Orchestra.

Cesare Valletti, Rosalind Elias, Gerard Souzay

Werther is an opera (1892) in four acts by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on the German novella The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.