Benvenuto Cellini (1966)

Opera: Production details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Production premiere: 15 December 1966
Producer: John Dexter
Set designer: Beni Montresor
Costume designer: Beni Montresor
Lighting designer: William Bundy
Revival staging: John Copley
(1969 revival)
Revival choreographer: Claude Chagrin
Act II mime in the 1969 revival
Revival choreographer: Peter Clegg
Act II dance for the 1969 revival, which was also used in the 1976 revival.
Revival producer: John Copley
(1976 revival)
Revival choreographer: Joan Lawson
Act II mime in the 1976 revival
Revival fight director: Ian McKay
(1976 revival)
Notes: Programmes for the 1969 revival contained this note: 'The management acknowledges the help given by Arthur Hammond, Hugh Macdonald, Richard Temple Savage and Maurits Sillem in preparing this performing edition'.
Performances
15 December 1966 Evening Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
19 March 1969 Evening Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
29 January 1976 Evening 7.30pm Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London