Benvenuto Cellini
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.
- genus: Comedy, Drama, History
- Studio: De Nederlandse Opera, ENO: English National Opera, Opéra National de Paris
- keyword: opera
- cast: John Osborn, Pretty Yende, Michèle Losier, Audun Iversen, Marco Spotti, Philippe Jordan
