Prom 59: Benvenuto Cellini

2 Sep 2019, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Mon 2 Sep 2019 Next Event

Proms 2019 Prom 59: Benvenuto Cellini

19:00 Mon 2 Sep 2019 Royal Albert Hall

Sir John Eliot Gardiner completes his five-season Berlioz series with the composer鈥檚 rarely performed and vastly demanding opera Benvenuto Cellini. Michael Spyres is Renaissance sculptor Cellini with Sophia Burgos as his beloved Teresa.

Programme

- - Hector Berlioz
  - Benvenuto Cellini(154 mins)(concert performance; sung in French, with surtitles)

Performers

Michael Spyres
Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini
Sophia Burgos
Teresa
Teresa
Maurizio Muraro
Balducci
Balducci
Tareq Nazmi
Pope Clement VII
Pope Clement VII
Vincent Delhoume
Francesco
Francesco
Lionel Lhote
Fieramosca
Fieramosca
Ad猫le Charvet
Ascanio
Ascanio
Ashley Riches
Bernardino
Bernardino
Duncan Meadows
Perseus
Perseus
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
conductor
conductor

Composers

Hector Berlioz

About This Event

Sir John Eliot Gardiner brings his five-year series of Berlioz performances to a triumphant close, and this summer鈥檚 150th-anniversary celebrations to a spectacular climax, with the composer鈥檚 rarely performed opera Benvenuto Cellini, based on the life and loves of the Renaissance sculptor 鈥� culminating in the forging of a vast masterwork.

With its sprawling storytelling and vastly demanding score, this is a piece built for the scope of the Royal Albert Hall. American tenor Michael Spyres sings the title-role.

There will be one interval

Approx. end time: 22:15

Image: Sir John Eliot Gardiner 漏 Sim Canetty Clarke