Tenor Rolando Villazón was singing the title role in Massenet's “Werther” in 2006 at Nice, France, when he started thinking about how he would direct the opera.
“I said, ‘oh, this last act is very difficult. He shot himself and keeps singing for 40 minutes.' And so, what would I do?” he recalled. “And I started inventing, creating for fun a staging.”
