Hector Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini
Opera in two acts
Text by Léon de Wailly and Henri Auguste Barbier based on the Vita of Benvenuto Cellini
New production
In French, with German and English surtitles
PREMIERE
- 15 August 2007, 19:30
- 18 August 2007, 18:30
- 21 August 2007, 18:30
- 26 August 2007, 19:30
- 30 August 2007, 18:30
Print programme (PDF)
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
Philipp Stölzl, Stage director and sets
Kathi Maurer, Costumes
Duane Schuler, Lighting
Stefan Kessner, Max Stolzenberg, Video
Mara Kurotschka, Choreography
Ronny Dietrich, Dramaturgy
Andreas Schüller, Chorus master
Burkhard Fritz, Benvenuto Cellini
Laurent Naouri, Fieramosca
Brindley Sherratt, Giacomo Balducci
Mikhail Petrenko, Pope Clemens VII
Maija Kovalevska, Teresa, Balducci’s daughter
Kate Aldrich, Ascanio, Cellini’s apprentice
Xavier Mas, Francesco, Cellini’s apprentice
Roberto Tagliavini, Bernardino, Cellini’s apprentice
Adam Plachetka, Pompeo
Sung-Keun Park, Innkeeper
Vienna Philharmonic
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus