Making of Le Comte Ory
An opera written by Rossini after a libretto by Eugène Scribe
Cast
Alberto Zedda — Artistic director
Lluís Pasqual — Stage director
Paolo Carignani — Conductor
María José Moreno
Roberto de Candia — Raimbaud
Lorenzo Regazzo — The Governor
Laura Polverelli — Isolier
Program notes
In the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Italy), Paolo Carignani (conductor), Alberto Zedda (artistic director), Lluis Pasqual (director) and several performers take us behind the scenes of the opera Le Comte Ory Rossini.
Every August, in the birthplace of Gioachino Rossini, singers, composers and public specialists are brought together during the Rossini Opera Festival to rediscover unsung masterpieces of the composer.
On the occasion of its 30th edition, the production team of Comte Ory dissects in a series of meetings amid beautiful images of staging the secrets of this opera. This opera, a real Don Giovanni of medieval times, seizes the opportunity of starting a crusade knights to seduce the object of his desires, prudish countess Adele...