Benvenuto Cellini

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

• Comedy
• Drama
• History

• 180 Mins
• 2018
• en

• star8.5/ 10

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.