Performance

Venue	Royal Albert Hall
	Also: Elgar Room
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	2nd September 2019
To	2nd September 2019
When	19:00
Royal Albert Hall (V221)
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Date of change: 4 Jun 19 - T01355712153

Prom 59 - Benvenuto Cellini

Work:: Prom 59 (S5996)

Part of the BBC Proms.

Production:: Benvenuto Cellini (T01355712153)

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.

Performer	Michael Spyres (Benvenuto Cellini)
Performer	Sophia Burgos (Teresa)
Performer	Matthew Rose (Balducci)
Performer	Tareq Nazmi (Pope Clement VII)
Performer	Krystian Adam (Francesco)
Performer	Ashley Riches (Bernardino)
Performer	Lional Lhote (Fieramosca)
Performer	Adele Charvet (Ascanio)
Company	Monteverdi Choir
Company	Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
Conductor	John Eliot Gardiner (Sir)

Listing:: L01270106946

Benvenuto Cellini

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.

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