Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Benvenuto Cellini is an opera by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Léon de Wailly and Auguste Barbier. It was first performed in Paris in 1838. Benvenuto Cellini is rarely performed and is not part of the standard operatic repertoire. There is only one complete recording of it. The first performance of the work at the Metropolitan Opera in New York took place in December 2003, with James Levine as conductor. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.