Janos Gereben writes:

>Donald Runnicles, SFO's music director and one of the finest conductors
>around in a range that stretches from `Peleas' to the `Ring,' is conducting
>`Werther' on the Saturday Met broadcast.

What makes this unusual is that the Werther in this production is a
baritone, Thomas Hampson.  Massenet made a version of the opera for a high
baritone, but usually, of course, the part is sung by a tenor, say, Georges
Thill, sadly no longer with us.

Scott Morrison