Overview
Live performance from Salzburg Festival Opera, August 2007. The story tells of Cellini's love for Teresa, daughter of the Papal Treasurer Balducci. His rival, the Papal Sculptor Fieramosca, overhears Cellini plotting to run away with Teresa during the carnival.
Cast
- Burkhard Fritz as Benvenuto Cellini
- Laurent Naouri as Fieramosca
- Brindley Sherratt as Giacomo
- Mikhail Petrenko as Pope Clement VII
- Kate Aldrich as Ascanio
- Maija Kovalevska as Teresa
- Xavier Mas as Francesco
- Roberto Tagliavini as Bernardino
- Adam Plachetka as Pompeo
- Park Sung-Keun as Wirt