Werther, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Massenet's romantic tragedy joins Scottish Opera repertoire in a new staging by up-and-coming director Pia Furtado. Designer Helen Goddard's costumes suggest a period closer to the opera itself (1892) than to the late-18th-century setting of Goethe's novel, but the story of an outsider artist whose love for a married woman drives him to suicide comes over with intense power. Rea…