June 2011 The Damnation of Faust closes at the Coliseum. They bought it! We pulled the wool over their eyes – it seems to have been accepted as a good thing. Foolishly, this has given me the illusion ...

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 ...

fter his triumph directing The Damnation of Faust for English National Opera three years ago, former Monty Python Terry Gilliam has been raring get his hands on Berlioz’s first opera Benvenuto Cellini ...

Anyone attending the premiere of Berlioz's rarely seen opera Benvenuto Cellini, directed by Monty Python alumnus Terry Gilliam at the English National Opera (ENO), could be forgiven for thinking it ...

Art and opera have gone together ever since the first operatic spectacles were staged in Renaissance Italy. Opera is by definition a multimedia entertainment that brings together the visual with music ...

A spirited performance of Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini can take the breath away and make a critic hold his tongue, temporarily at least, about any flaws he may have heard or seen. Prior to the ...

Continuing their policy of reaching the parts of opera other companies fear to go to, the ENO has brought us a wonderfully sparking production of a work by Berlioz that many would consider to have ...

It doesn’t take a long look at Terry Gilliam’s CV – the sprawling Brazil, the ill-fated The Man Who Killed Don Quixote – to realise that the director has a fondness for noble failures and grand, ...

One of the most hotly-anticipated arts events of 2014, Terry Gilliam's production of Benvenuto Cellini for English National Opera opened at the London Coliseum last night. A host of stars from the ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The Metropolitan Opera has staged two 19th century operatic rarities this season in the hope of bolstering ticket sales at one of the company's most difficult times ...

Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini is an opera like no other. The eponymous Florentine sculptor is a libertine who, charged with murder, escapes hanging by a semi-miraculous casting of a Perseus figure for ...