The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that went beyond the confines of Italy. Invariably embroiled in conspiracies, intrigues and quarrels, Cellini is commissioned by the Pope to cast a large sculpture of Perseus. He is loved by Teresa, but she is promised to Fieramosca, an academic artist who has not been favoured with a papal commission. Terry Gilliam’s exuberant production draws the protagonists into a delirious and joyful yet claustrophobic and megalomaniac world: a flaring up of contagious madness.
John Osborn
as Benvenuto Cellini
Pretty Yende
as Teresa
Michèle Losier
as Ascanio
Audun Iversen
as Fieramosca
Marco Spotti
as Le Pape Clément VII
Philippe Jordan
as Self - Conductor
