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Credit: Eugène Grasset. Restoration by Adam Cuerden
Poster for the Paris premiere of Massenet's opera Werther in 1893. The libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet, and Georges Hartmann is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. The opera entered the permanent repertoire at the Opéra-Comique in 1903 in a production supervised by Albert Carré and over the next half-century was performed there over 1,100 times.