Jules Massenet’s moody gloss on Goethe’s runaway best-seller of 1774 The Sorrows of Young Werther. Matthew Polenzani takes the title role of the young artist too sensitive for this world. Isabel Leonard is Charlotte, his soulmate, bound by a vow to marry another. Robert Spano conducts Benoît Jacquot’s sturdy production, shared with the Paris Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. —Matthew Gurewitsch