By James Foritano I go to opera because I feel that watching and listening from my seat I experience emotions and insights of a strength allied to but unavailable to me in other forms of art. And this indeed was the case in attending the Boston Lyric Opera’s presentation of Jules Massenet’s “Werther.” It takes ‘two to tango,’ as they say, and the truth of that moment came to me as Werther’s hero and heroine, tenor Alex Richardson as Werther, and mezzo-soprano Sandra Piques Eddy, tangled in the final act, voices and bodies, to bellow out a melodiously irresistible duet. I remember the usually mopping, tearful Werther’s white shirt bursting into a blaze of spot-lit radiance. The usually inhibited Charlotte leaning into Werther like a full-back straining for the goal posts; and Werther, no longer moppy, leaning into her as if to say with bodily force: “You’ve arrived, lady, at … [Read more...] about Werther at Boston Lyric Opera