Three months later, Harris did mount “Werther" at Covent Garden, with the
Chicago cast, for the rentree of Jean de Reszke; but the opera failed  to please.
Not even the genius of the artist could  invest with enduring interest a work consistently  sombre, undramatic, and dull. Yet, taken individually, his impersonation was, in its way, one of the supreme achievements of his career. His voice at this period was at its very finest;
nor  shall I ever forget his wonderful singing and acting in the duet of the third act, where “his beautiful tones fairly compassed the entire gamut of passionate longing and despair.''