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 ...

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Benvenuto Cellini’s Autobiography, composed between 1558 and 1566, was not the first memoir ever written, but it was the first example of that exalted subgenre, the “tell-all.” Before Cellini, ...

BENVENUTO Cellini, the legendary 16th century goldsmith and sculptor, now has a movie in his memory, and Filmhouse Cinemas has announced that it will be showing his autobiography on November 28 in all ...

I’m in the process of reading ”The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini ,” the memoir of the Florentine goldsmith/artist (1500-71) who was a contemporary of the great Italian artists Michelangelo, da ...

Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) woke one morning and noticed something odd floating over his head: a halo. It had begun appearing there, he said, while he was in a prison cell down the street from the ...

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 ...

This biography situates Cellini more appropriately in the transition that lies between the Renaissance and the modern era.