The review of Scottish Opera's production of Werther that best approximates my reaction to it comes from The Scottish Mail On Sunday -

" this new production makes for a wonderful , albeit wonderfully miserable, evening out, with the downbeat storyline offset by memorable vocal performances and dazzling playing by an orchestra (conducted by Francesco Corti) at the height of its powers…"

Fair enough to be gutted that your love is not (apparently) returned and then when you realise it is but cannot be fulfilled, to be even more gutted but suicide is a bit extreme.  However you could see he was making such a meal of the whole damned thing throughout that he wasn't going to pull himself together and look for another fish in the sea.

It didn't make for a jolly show and I would have preferred a bit of light relief after the dose of contemporary music I had taken in the afternoon. My sax teacher had organised a course at Stevenson College on up to the minute crash, bang wallop saxophone and piano playing and there was a little public concert in association with it so I thought I should show some solidarity and go along. 

It was all very new music and although I try to listen to everything with an open mind it can be quite hard to appreciate this sort of stuff.  Here's a taste.  I enjoyed this piece.  It was played on the tenor rather than the bass so the sound is a bit heavier here.  If you listen carefully you may spot the occasional almost tuneful little riff and you'll notice that the pianist never leans inside the piano to whack the strings or the case which was a feature of a number of the pieces they played.