Details

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/Performers

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/Company

Company(s): Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner (Sir)