The opera, otoh, changes this so that Lotte is unquestioningly in love with Werther, is only with Albert because her mother wished that with her dying breath and her father wants it as well, and Albert turns into a domestic tyrant who forbids Lotte Werther's company once they're married.
Aw, man, of course it does, it's a 19th C opera. Grrrr. Okay... maybe I should check out the opera before reading it, I'm less likely to be really irritated :) (Argh, and this reminds me I actually picked up the Faust translation you recommended and it's been sitting on my bookshelf for a while, just waiting to be read! I have a lot on my list, okay.) On the other hand... that clip reminds me I would probably just go anywhere for Jonas Kaufmann, aaaaaah.
On the other hand, Lego Werther was hilarious! And the trailers are very pretty :)
I empathize re: Jonas Kaufmann, whom I saw live on the stage three times.
The guy who did the Lego Werther by now did over 300 lego summaries of works of literature in German, and has started doing English versions as well, like this one, so I can link you to Lego Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love, the Schiller play I told you about which is also a lesser known Verdi opera named Luisa Miller and features Lady Milford and the scene that more than any other got Schiller the undying enmity of his Duke, Carl Eugen (married to Wilhelmine's daughter), the one about forcible recruitment to the US, here.
He also did Schiller's Don Carlos, but not yet in English. If you want to tackle the German version: Lego Don Carlos.
Ahhhh I'm not going to be able to follow it in German at all (I could get the refrains in the musical if they were short and they repeated them slowly, but only because I had the translation right there :P ), but if he ever does Don Carlos in English let me know, because these are hilarious :D
(Oh! And mildred pointed out to me that I might be able to watch German DVDs in one way or another, so I have German DVDs of this production now, which looks like it could be interestingly regie. But I have been too busy to actually try to figure out how to watch it *facepalm*
And hey, one of the two Amazon reviews says this production mostly kept the original text (not always the case in Regietheater) and made the viewer empathize with Philip instead of just Posa and Carlos, and that Elisabeth comes across as whip smart, so it should be up your alley...
That review, uh, may have been the thing that made me pull the trigger on it :D One day I'll have the time to try to figure out how to play it *rolls eyes at self*
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Re: All About Werther
Date: 2021-02-10 06:19 am (UTC)Aw, man, of course it does, it's a 19th C opera. Grrrr. Okay... maybe I should check out the opera before reading it, I'm less likely to be really irritated :) (Argh, and this reminds me I actually picked up the Faust translation you recommended and it's been sitting on my bookshelf for a while, just waiting to be read! I have a lot on my list, okay.) On the other hand... that clip reminds me I would probably just go anywhere for Jonas Kaufmann, aaaaaah.
On the other hand, Lego Werther was hilarious! And the trailers are very pretty :)
Re: All About Werther
Date: 2021-02-10 12:05 pm (UTC)The guy who did the Lego Werther by now did over 300 lego summaries of works of literature in German, and has started doing English versions as well, like this one, so I can link you to Lego Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love, the Schiller play I told you about which is also a lesser known Verdi opera named Luisa Miller and features Lady Milford and the scene that more than any other got Schiller the undying enmity of his Duke, Carl Eugen (married to Wilhelmine's daughter), the one about forcible recruitment to the US, here.
He also did Schiller's Don Carlos, but not yet in English. If you want to tackle the German version: Lego Don Carlos.
Re: All About Werther
Date: 2021-02-12 05:28 am (UTC)Ahhhh I'm not going to be able to follow it in German at all (I could get the refrains in the musical if they were short and they repeated them slowly, but only because I had the translation right there :P ), but if he ever does Don Carlos in English let me know, because these are hilarious :D
(Oh! And mildred pointed out to me that I might be able to watch German DVDs in one way or another, so I have German DVDs of this production now, which looks like it could be interestingly regie. But I have been too busy to actually try to figure out how to watch it *facepalm*
Re: All About Werther
Date: 2021-02-12 06:10 am (UTC)And hey, one of the two Amazon reviews says this production mostly kept the original text (not always the case in Regietheater) and made the viewer empathize with Philip instead of just Posa and Carlos, and that Elisabeth comes across as whip smart, so it should be up your alley...
Re: All About Werther
Date: 2021-02-13 05:58 pm (UTC)