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Werther's middle-class dream in Rosetta Cucchi's Bologna staging

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“Juan Diego Flórez... impeccable phrasing... faultless high notes”
Reviewed at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Bologna on 15 December 2016
Massenet, Werther
Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Michele Mariotti, Conductor
Rosetta Cucchi, Director
Tiziano Santi, Set Designer
Juan Diego Flórez, Werther
Isabel Leonard, Charlotte
Jean-François Lapointe, Albert
Ruth Iniesta, Sophie
Alessandro Luciano, Schmidt
Lorenzo Malagola-Barbieri, Johann
Luca Gallo, Le Bailli
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