Has anyone seen the opera Benvenuto Cellini, by Hector Berlioz? The hero is Benvenuto Cellini, who does metal casting, and this figures essentially into the plot. In the last act, he has to produce a metal sculpture or be hanged, and suddenly finds himself short of metal. At the last minute, he orders all his old masterpieces, including his Gingery lathe, to be thrown into the furnace to make the sculpture, and that saves the day.
Well, it doesn't actually say anywhere that it was a Gingery lathe that he sacrificed, but what else could it have been?
Are there any other operas or musicals that feature metalworkers? If anyone is familiar with this opera and thinks they would prefer a different representation of a metalworker, I'd be interested in what they would like to see emphasized (not that I'm about to write an opera...).
Ignorantly, Allan Adler snipped-for-privacy@zurich.ai.mit.edu
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