Film

Benvenuto Cellini

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

8.5

3h 0m

2018

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

Synopsis

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.

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