 Though Berlioz grudgingly admired some works by Rossini, he despised what he saw as the showy effects of the Italian style and longed to return opera to the dramatic truth of Gluck.He was also a fully-fledged Romantic, keen to find new ways of musical expression.His first and only work for the Paris Opéra, "Benvenuto Cellini" (1838), was a notorious failure.