Benvenuto Cellini | Closed: 27 June 2014

Benvenuto Cellini

Show Info Cast & Creative Age & Content Guide

Genre Opera/Dance

Venue

London Coliseum Get directions

First Performance 05/06/2014

Closing 27/06/2014

Running Time 3h10

Berlioz’s first opera comes to the London Colisuem for the first time in a production directed by Terry Gilliam.

Featuring stunning visual and musical set pieces, Benvenuto Cellini is based on the autobiography of celebrated 16th century goldsmith and sculptor Cellini, and interweaves two plots, that of his love for Teresa and his fulfilment of a commission to cast a bronze statue of Perseus.

A tale of thwarted love, elopement, intrigue, disguise, mistaken identity, secular merry-making and sacred ceremony combines with Berlioz’s vibrant and tender music in this significant new production by Gilliam and ENO Music Director Edward Gardner, the duo behind 2011’s The Damnation Of Faust.

This production is sung and surtitled in English.

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Cast

Michael Spyres, Corinne Winters, Pavlo Hunka, Richard Burkhard, Willard White, Paula Murrihy, Nicky Spence, David Soar

Creative

Director - Terry Gilliam

Producer - English National Opera & De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam

Designer - Rae Smith

Conductor - Edward Gardner

Lighting Designer - Paule Constable

Movement Director - Leah Hausman

Author - Léon de Wailly & Henri Auguste Barbier

Translated By - Charles Hart

Music By - Hector Berlioz

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