Benvenuto Cellini (2018)
Hector Berlioz's opera semiseria live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on April 12th, 2018
Synopsis
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.
Cast
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John Osborn
as Benvenuto Cellini
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Pretty Yende
as Teresa
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Michèle Losier
as Ascanio
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Audun Iversen
as Fieramosca
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Marco Spotti
as Le Pape Clément VII
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Philippe Jordan
as Self - Conductor
Crew
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Hector Berlioz
Original Music Composer
- Léon de Wailly Writer
- Henri Auguste Barbier Writer
