Maurizio Benini, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Rossini: Le Comte Ory (2012)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: 20 May 2020 11:19:04

Le Comte Ory tells the story of a libidinous and cunning nobleman who disguises himself first as a hermit and then as a nun ("Sister Colette") in order to gain access to the virtuous Countess Adele, whose brother is away at the Crusades. The 2011 Met production was directed by the Tony Award-winning Broadway director Bartlett Sher, who in recent years has also staged Il barbiere di Siviglia and Les Contes d'Hoffman for the Met. Sher presented the action as an opera within an opera, updated the action by a few centuries and giving the costume designer, Catherine Zuber, the opportunity to create some particularly extravagant headgear. Juan Diego Florez starred as the title role while Diana Damrau plays his love interest, Countess Adele, and Joyce DiDonato was in breeches as his pageboy Isolier. The trio had appeared in Sher's production of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Performer:
Raimbaud - Stéphane Degout
Alice - Monica Yunus
Ragonde - Susanne Resmark
Le Comte Ory - Juan Diego Flórez
Le Gouverneur - Michele Pertusi
Isolier - Joyce Di Donato
La Comtesse Adèle - Diana Damrau
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor - Maurizio Benini

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