Noted theater director Andrei Serban, who has staged numerous operas for national and international companies, drew a tough assignment for his Metropolitan Opera debut. The task at hand was actually ...

Gilliam’s Benvenuto Cellini is one of the most expensive productions ever seen at English National Opera. It’s also a notoriously challenging, rarely-staged hybrid of a work that failed (repeatedly) ...

Berlioz’ first opera Benvenuto Cellini is rather an unorthodox piece, since it possesses quite an unwieldy plot and demands much from a staging in order to portray, among other things, the casting of ...

It’s a brave company that tackles Berlioz’s problematical first opera as the pitfalls are immense. First there’s the unwieldy ninety-minute first act, whose dramaturgy is shaky to say the least as ...

Hector Berlioz seems to have appreciated the work of 16th Century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, but was more inspired by his life. So inspired, in fact, that he wrote an opera about Cellini. JoAnn ...

Yet Sir John Eliot Gardiner has learnt how to work the stage - here via director Noa Naamat - so that the performers use his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique as their sounding board - ...

IT'S the morning - well, late afternoon - after the first night before and Terry Giliam is on a high as he declares, "There's nothing more exhilarating than success." His sense of relief indicates ...

As much as the use of supertitles has changed the face of opera, the high-def broadcasting of stage performances into movie theaters may have even more far-reaching effects. With supertitles, foreign ...