Benvenuto Cellini (2018)

Benvenuto Cellini (2018)

Hector Berlioz's opera semiseria live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on April 12th, 2018 2018-04-12 180 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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

John Osborn is Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini
Pretty Yende is Teresa
Audun Iversen is Fieramosca
Fieramosca
Marco Spotti is Le Pape Clément VII
Le Pape Clément VII
Philippe Jordan is Conductor