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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flame-throwers threw, tumblers tumbled, gigantic carnival masks mocked and leered; crowds waved mops and feather dusters, stilt-walkers and jugglers reeled and tweaked and twirled until golden rain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

What you need to knowTerry Gilliam's production of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini for the English National Opera has opened at the Coliseum, London. Screenwriter, film director, animator and Monty Python ...

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 ...