Benvenuto Cellini (opera)
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Benvenuto Cellini is an opera semiseria in four tableaux by Hector Berlioz, his first full-length work for the stage. Premiered at the Académie Royale de Musique on 10 September 1838, it is a setting
Poster for the premiere
Cellini (Duprez)
Teresa (Dorus-Gras)
Balducci (Dérivis)
Benvenuto Cellini
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Benvenuto Cellini was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and author. His best-known extant works include the Cellini Salt Cellar, the sculpture of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, and his autobiography,
Benvenuto Cellini (opera)
…a setting of a libretto by Léon de Wailly and Henri Auguste Barbier, who invented most of the plot inspired by the memoirs of the Florentine sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. The opera is technically challenging and was until the 21st century rarely performed. However, the overture occasionally features in orchestral concerts…
Bust of Benvenuto Cellini on the Ponte Vecchio, Florence
Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Statue of Cellini, Piazzale degli Uffizi, Florence
The Nymph of Fontainebleau, by Benvenuto Cellini, now in the Louvre (1542)