Benvenuto Cellini (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.
https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/season-17-18/opera/benvenuto-cellini
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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 |
| Directing | Terry Gilliam | Stage Director |
| Sound | Hector Berlioz | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Léon de Wailly | Writer |
| Writing | Henri Auguste Barbier | Writer |