Name: Benvenuto Cellini
Start: 2003-12-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2004-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Soprano

Isabel Bayrakdarian

Teresa

Mezzo-soprano

Kristine Jepson

Ascanio

Katharine Goeldner

Tenor

Marcello Giordani

Benvenuto Cellini

Baritone

Peter Coleman-Wright

Fieramosca

Alan Opie

Louis Otey

Bass

Richard Bernstein

Balducci

John Del Carlo

Eric Halfvarson

Pope Clement VII

Robert Lloyd

Bernard Fitch

Le Cabaretier

Anthony Laciura

Galen Scott Bower

Pompeo

Eduardo Valdes

Francesco

Patrick Carfizzi

Bernardino

Conductor

Derrick Inouye

James Levine

Stage director

Andrei Serban

Costume designer

Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili

Set designer

George Tsypin

Lighting designer

James F Ingalls

Choreographer

Nikolaus Wolcz

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Berlioz’s opera about the legendary hot-blooded Florentine sculptor and goldsmith is a rarity. But under James Levine’s masterful conducting the huge and complex score dazzles like one of Cellini’s artworks. Marcello Giordani is Benventuo Cellini, who must finish a statue of Perseus for Pope Clement (Robert Lloyd) by nightfall or be hanged as a murderer and rapist. Against all the odds, including the conniving of his vicious rival Fieramosca (Peter Coleman-Wright), Cellini’s artistry triumphs, and he can finally be with the woman he loves, Teresa (Isabel Bayrakdarian).

Benvenuto Cellini Berlioz

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading