Name: Benvenuto Cellini
Start: 2019-08-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Organization

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Stage director

Noa Naamat

Lighting designer

Rick Fisher

Costume designer

Sarah Denise Cordery

Tenor

Michael Spyres

Benvenuto Cellini

Soprano

Sophia Burgos

Teresa

Bass

Maurizio Muraro

Balducci

Tareq Nazmi

Pope Clement VII

Baritone

Lionel Lhote

Fieramosca

Mezzo-soprano

Adèle Charvet

Ascanio

Vincent Delhoume

Francesco

Ashley Riches

Bernardino

Singer

Duncan Meadows

Perseus

Orchestra

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Others

Monteverdi Choir

Versailles

France

Opéra Royal

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Berlin

Germany

Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Benvenuto Cellini Berlioz

Public

Approved

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In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Berlioz’s death in 2019, John Eliot Gardiner led the Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and a cast of international soloists in performances of Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini across Europe. This excerpt from the 'Chante des ciseleurs' was filmed at the Opéra Royal in the Palace of Versailles.

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini

Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner - conductor

Michael Spyres - Benvenuto Cellini
Sophia Burgos - Teresa
Maurizio Muraro - Giacomo Balducci
Tareq Nazmi - Pope Clement VII
Lionel Lhote - Fieramosca
Adèle Charvet - Ascanio
Vincent Delhoume - Francesco
Ashley Riches - Bernardino

Noa Naamat - director
Rick Fisher - lighting designer
Sarah Denise Cordery - costume designer

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The three Monteverdi ensembles – the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique – are a leading force on the international music scene. World-class musicians and singers from many nationalities come together to share in the distinctive vision of our Artistic Director, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in ground-breaking projects that span eight centuries of musical masterpieces.

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini | ‘Chante des ciseleurs’ (excerpt) | Opéra Royal, Palace of Versailles

The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique’s five-year commitment to the music of Hector Berlioz – which has seen them showcase varied programmes of the composer’s works across Europe and the United States, and at the BBC Proms over the past four consecutive years – culminated in 2019 by marking the 150th anniversary of Berlioz’s death. In the summer, the ORR and the Monteverdi Choir performed a series of staged concerts of Berlioz’s first opera, in what were the first modern performances of the piece on period instruments.

The series opened in Berlioz’s home town: La Côte-Saint-André, before heading to two of Europe’s most prestigious music festivals: the Berliner Festspiele and London’s BBC Proms. The tour then returned to France for a finale at the Opéra Royal, Versailles.

Rarely performed today, Benvenuto Cellini received its premiere on 10 September 1838 at the Académie Royale de Musique. The libretto for this opera was inspired by the memoirs of the eponymous 16th-century Florentine sculptor, and was jointly written by Léon de Wailly, Auguste Barbier, and Alfred de Vigny. The score of the work exists in three main versions, and for the 2019 performances John Eliot Gardiner has selected parts of all three, incorporating part of Berlioz’s initial score before the rehearsals in 1838; the version with changes made during the first production; and the revised version created by Berlioz for the Weimar revival of 1852, conducted by Franz Liszt.

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