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Tenor Matthew Polenzani (right) and Sophie Koch run through a dress rehearsal for the opera âWertherâ on Friday, October 26, 2012. I Stacie Scott~Sun-Times Media
Director Francisco Negrin runs through a dress rehearsal for the opera âWertherâ on Friday, October 26, 2012. I Stacie Scott~Sun-Times Media
Although Jules Massenet’s “Werther” is regularly performed in Europe, the opera remains a relative rarity on American stages. Consider that in the last decade, just 17 productions of the work have been mounted by member companies of Opera America, compared with 130 stagings of another …