Benvenuto Cellini
“GRAMOPHONE CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS 2019 SHORTLIST - OPERA”
2015•AL•3h 0m•Released
Music
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.
Writer
Léon de Wailly, Henri Auguste Barbier
Languages
French
Studio
NAXOS
Cast
John Osborn
Benvenuto Cellini
Michèle Losier
Ascanio
Maurizio Muraro
Giacomo Balducci
Orlin Anastassov
Le Pape Clément VII
Laurent Naouri
Fieramosca
Mariangela Sicilia
Teresa
Nicky Spence
Francesco
Scott Conner
Bernardino
André Morsch
Pompeo
Marcel Beekman
Le Cabaratier
Mark Elder
Conductor
Recommended
7.1
The Tales of Hoffmann
1951
5.8
Love Happy
1949
6
Grace Unplugged
2013
6.4
Too Late Blues
1961
7.3
Jesus Christ Superstar - Live Arena Tour
2012
6.3
The Big Store
1941
6.5
The Pirate
1948
8.3
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
2010
6.9
Star!
1968
6
Ziegfeld Follies
1945
7.1
Black Is King
2020
8.2
Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour
2018
8
Amadeus
1984
6.4
The Boy Friend
1971
6.6
Man of La Mancha
1972
7
Let It Shine
2012
6.9
Step Up
2006
6.8
Footlight Parade
1933
7.3
High Strung Free Dance
2018
6.5
Brigadoon
1954
Similar Movies
10
Orpheus and Eurydice
2008
9
Don Carlo
1985
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Pasquale
2010
6
Il Campanello
2010
The Five Moons of Lorca
2020
6.3
Il Trovatore - Verdi
1978
Puccini: Turandot (San Francisco Opera)
1994
8
La Fille du Régiment - Metropolitan Opera
2008
8.7
La traviata in Paris
2007
La Bohème
2023
Tosca
2023
6.5
Rossini: Guillaume Tell
2013
Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte
2002
5.8
Interrupted Melody
1955
8.6
Massenet: Werther
2010
7.1
The Tales of Hoffmann
1951
6.3
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005
8
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
1995
10
Berlioz: Les Troyens
2003
9
Tancredi
1992