page_title: Werther
section_title: Synopsis
hierarchical_section_title: Werther / Synopsis
caption_attribution_description: English: Claire Croiza (1882-1946) as Charlotte in Jules Massenet's Werther.
context_page_description: Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann. It is loosely based on the German epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which was based both on fact and on Goethe's own early life. Earlier examples of operas using the story were made by Kreutzer and Pucitta.
context_section_description: Time: Within the period July to December, in an undefined year in the 1780s.
  Place: Wetzlar in Germany.
caption: Claire Croiza as Charlotte in 1907
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