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
Henri Auguste Barbier, Léon de Wailly
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
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