CAST:
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)
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Sets & Staging:
Philipp Stölzl
Costumes:
Kathi Maurer
Lights: Duane Schuler
Choreographer: Mara
Kurotschka
Dramaturgy: Ronny Dietrich
Chorus Master: Andreas
Schüller
Orchestra: Vienna
Philharmonic and Concert Association
of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Running Time:
2 hrs 44 mins with one intermission
Sung in French
with English subtitles
Photos:
© Magdalena
Lepka
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Hector Berlioz‘s “Benvenuto Cellini,
a French opera written in the 1830s,
is so complex, richly detailed and
prolifically imaginative that
Berlioz‘s contemporaries often
considered it unplayable. However,
this is resoundingly proven false in
the 2007 Salzburg Festival
production of director Philipp
Stölzl, conductor Valery Gergiev
(“the wild man of music“) and a
high-caliber cast accompanied by the
Vienna Philharmonic and its chorus.
Called “the surprise hit of this
year’s Salzburg festival”
(Bloomberg), the production met with
rave reviews:
“Maija Kovalevska's Teresa is
absolute star material, exuberant,
charismatic, and musically assured,
her Cellini, Burkhard Fritz, sings
with meaty heroism. Laurent Naouri
makes a hilariously villainous
Fieramosca, without compromising on
detail or beauty of tone, and Kate
Aldrich, as Cellini's faithful
assistant Ascanio, sings with
silvery perfection.” –
Bloomberg News
Conductor Valery Gergiev “pulled
out all the stops. He whips the
Vienna Philharmonic into a delirium
similar to that which possibly took
hold of the composer. The result was
an unremittingly exalted
atmosphere...“
-Der Standard
“Breathtaking!" -Der Standard
“Spectacularly successful!"
-F.A.Z. |
