Benvenuto Cellini
Hector Berlioz's opera semiseria live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on April 12th, 2018
The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that went beyond the confines of Italy. Invariably embroiled in conspiracies, intrigues and quarrels, Cellini is commissioned by the Pope to cast a large sculpture of Perseus. He is loved by Teresa, but she is promised to Fieramosca, an academic artist who has not been favoured with a papal commission. Terry Gilliam’s exuberant production draws the protagonists into a delirious and joyful yet claustrophobic and megalomaniac world: a flaring up of contagious madness.
Written by Henri Auguste Barbier
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Cast
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John Osborn Benvenuto Cellini -
Pretty Yende Teresa -
Michèle Losier Ascanio -
Audun Iversen Fieramosca -
Marco Spotti Le Pape Clément VII -
Philippe Jordan Self - Conductor
Make it a double feature
4h 56m together
Benvenuto Cellini
Silentium
A close match in mood and era.
