BBC Proms 2019. Prom 59: Benvenuto Cellini

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BBC Proms: 2019: Prom 59: Benvenuto Cellini

Prom 59: Benvenuto Cellini

2019

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Live BBC Proms. John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini.

Live at the BBC Proms. John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, the Monteverdi Choir and tenor Michael Spyres in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini.

Live at BBC Proms: John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, the Monteverdi Choir and tenor Michael Spyres in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Tom Service. 

Berlioz:  Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini - Michael Spyres
Teresa -  Sophia Burgos
Balducci - Maurizio Muraro
Pope Clement VII - Tareq Nazmi
Francesco - Vincent Delhoume
Fieramosca - Lionel Lhote
Ascanio - Adèle Charvet
Bernardino - Ashley Riches
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Interval at approx 8.25pm: Andrew McgGegor talks to historian and broadcaster Sarah Lenton and music historian Flora Willson about Berlioz’s 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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