Comedy, Drama, History | 2018-04-12 | N/A

8.5 / 10

180 min.

Hector Berlioz's opera semiseria live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on April 12th, 2018

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.

De Nederlandse Opera

ENO: English National Opera

Opéra National de Paris