John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor); Michael Spyres (tenor) (Benvenuto Cellini); Sophia Burgos (soprano) (Teresa); Maurizio Muraro (bass) (Giacomo Balducci); Lionel Lhote (baritone) (Fieramosca); Tareq Nazmi (bass) (Pape Clément); Adéle Charvet (mezzo-soprano) (Ascanio); Vincent Delhoume (tenor) (Francesco); Ashley Riches (baritone) (Bernardino); Hector Berlioz (1803-1869); Benvenuto Cellini; 'Opéra-comique' in two acts and four tableaux; Libretto by Léon de Wailly and Auguste Barbier; First performance in Paris, 1838. Recorded on 7 & 8 September 2019 at the Opéra Royal, Château de Versailles; TV Director, Sébastien Glas (173 min)