Event listing: Benvenuto Cellini | Dutch National Opera and Ballet | Event is in the past

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Dutch National Opera and BalletAmstel 3, Amsterdam, North Holland, 1011 PN, Netherlands

Dates/times in Amsterdam time zone

Programme

Performers

Dutch National Opera
Sir Mark Elder	Conductor
Terry Gilliam	Director
Katrina Lindsay	Costume Designer
Rae Smith	Set Designer
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Chorus of Dutch National Opera
Mariangela Sicilia	Soprano	Teresa
Michèle Losier	Mezzo-soprano	Ascanio
Marcel Beekman	Tenor	An innkeeper
John Osborn	Tenor	Benvenuto Cellini
Nicky Spence	Tenor	Francesco
Laurent Naouri	Baritone	Fieramosca
André Morsch	Baritone	Pompeo
Scott Conner	Bass	Bernardino
Maurizio Muraro	Baritone	Giacomo Balducci
Orlin Anastassov	Bass	Pope Clement VII

Reviews of Benvenuto Cellini directed by Terry Gilliam

*****

The London Coliseum, June 2014

***11

Opéra national de Paris: Opéra Bastille, March 2018 (Français)

****1

Gran Teatre del Liceu: Auditorium, Barcelona, November 2015 (Español)

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Berlioz 150: Les Troyens and Benvenuto Cellini

Mark Pullinger, 19th February

The conductor and period instrument pioneer reflects on two of Berlioz' great operas.

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Brussels, Belgium

Terry Gilliam’s spectacular Benvenuto Cellini arrives in Amsterdam

Nicolas Nguyen, 9th May

The task sounded Herculean: turning Benvenuto Cellini, that reputedly difficult, flawed work by Berlioz, into an utterly entertaining show that renders justice to its youthfully energetic music. This is what Terry Gilliam manages to pull off... and it is nothing short of miraculous.

****1