Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini

Musikfest Berlin, foyer of the Philharmonie Berlin

31.08.2019 – On the 31st of August, the quartet of critics made a guest appearance at the Musikfest Berlin, again in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk: the topic was the opera, Benvenuto Cellini, by Hector Berlioz, which was performed by John Eliot Gardiner in the Philharmonie on the same evening. On the podium from left to right: Michael Stegemann, Susanne Benda, Olaf Wilhelmer (Deutschlandfunk), Eleonore Büning, and Volker Hagedorn (not in the picture).

This debate was broadcast as a radio feature and can be listened to in the Deutschlandfunk Kultur media library (in German):

A discussion about Hector Berlioz and his opera »Benvenuto Cellini«