Benvenuto Cellini (2015)
With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and personal freedom, Hector Berlioz went straight for the grand gesture with his first completed opera. Returning to it years after initial production debacles, Berlioz stated that he would 'never again find such verve and Cellinian impetuosity, nor such a variety of ideas.' The plot revolves around Cellini's wooing of Teresa, a match frustrated at every opportunity by his rival, the cowardly Fieramosca. Benvenuto Cellini is a pithy work combining romance, excitement, violence, comedy and spectacle; the perfect stage for Terry Gilliam's stylishly colorful and larger than life directing.
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John Osborn as Benvenuto Cellini |
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Michèle Losier as Ascanio |
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Maurizio Muraro as Giacomo Balducci |
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Orlin Anastassov as Le Pape Clément VII |
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Laurent Naouri as Fieramosca |
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Mariangela Sicilia as Teresa |
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Nicky Spence as Francesco |
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Scott Conner as Bernardino |
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André Morsch as Pompeo |
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Marcel Beekman as Le Cabaratier |
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Mark Elder as Conductor |
| Directing | Terry Gilliam | Stage Director |
| Writing | Henri Auguste Barbier | Writer |
| Writing | Léon de Wailly | Writer |
