Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" tells the story of a libidinous and cunning nobleman who disguises himself first as a hermit and then as a nun in order to gain access to the virtuous Countess Adele, whose brother is away at the Crusades. The 2011 Met production was directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, who presented the action as an opera within an opera, updating 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 Countess Adele, and Joyce DiDonato was in breeches as his pageboy Isolier. Conducted with verve and finesse by Maurizio Benini, the production also features the stylish French baritone Stephane Degout as Ory's bibulous conspirator Raimbaud, charismatic Italian bass Michele Pertusi as the Count's long-suffering Tutor, and, formidable as Adele's housekeeper Ragonde, the Swedish dramatic mezzo Susanne Resmark.

Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the ...

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Eugen Suchoň's opera Svätopluk returns to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre Opera in 2023. Si...

This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and condu...

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...

Vivian, Roe, JJ, Ines and a mysterious French man through a 20 year musical memory of New York City....

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there ...

Jules Massanet's lyrical opera is transformed into a superb film production by Petr Weigl, shot on l...

Frantisek Filip film version of the Smetana opera.

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German late-Romantic orc...

Rarely has a production of Verdi’s Otello been staged in such a prestigious location: the courtyard ...

A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekk...

Teatro Alla Scala 1983 production of three one-act operas from Puccini.

Gioacchino Rossini's sparkling version of the Cinderella story comes live from the Salzburg Festival...

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rhe...

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...