Werther Clair de lune ( Joyce Di Donato and Vittorio Grigolo, The Royal Opera)

Joyce DiDonato as Charlotte and Vittorio Grigolo as Werther sing Clair de lune from Jules Massenet s opera Werther, with Antonio Pappano conducting the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House for The Royal Opera, recorded in 2016. Find out more at Jules Massenet began thinking about making an opera from Goethes Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774; The Sorrows of Young Werther) as early as 1880, before he started work on Manon though in his memoirs he claimed inspiration came