Prom 59 – Benvenuto Cellini

Royal Albert Hall, Inner London

About the Show

Part of the BBC Proms.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner brings his five-year series of Berlioz performances to a triumphant close, and this summer’s 150th-anniversary celebrations to a spectacular climax, with the composer’s rarely performed opera Benvenuto Cellini, based on the life and loves of the Renaissance sculptor – 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.

Cast

Michael Spyres Benvenuto Cellini

Sophia Burgos Teresa

Matthew Rose Balducci

Tareq Nazmi Pope Clement VII

Krystian Adam Francesco

Ashley Riches Bernardino

Lional Lhote Fieramosca

Adele Charvet Ascanio

Creatives

Monteverdi Choir Company

Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique Company

John Eliot Gardiner (Sir) Conductor

Show Details

Dates:

Opening Night: 02 September 2019

Closing Night: 02 September 2019

Location:

Royal Albert Hall , Inner London

Kensington Gore,

Inner London,

SW7 2AP

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