Benvenuto Cellini
01/01/2015
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.
Movie Information
John Osborn
as Benvenuto Cellini
Michèle Losier
as Ascanio
Maurizio Muraro
as Giacomo Balducci
Orlin Anastassov
as Le Pape Clément VII
Laurent Naouri
as Fieramosca
Mariangela Sicilia
as Teresa
Nicky Spence
as Francesco
Scott Conner
as Bernardino
André Morsch
as Pompeo
Marcel Beekman
as Le Cabaratier
Mark Elder
as Conductor
