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Metropolitan Opera - Le Comte Ory

The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Le Comte Ory, Rossini’s racy final comedy, in a performance from 2013.

Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez starred in the title role as the Count who goes undercover – repeatedly – to pursue the Countess Adèle. That role was sung by South African soprano Pretty Yende, who made her dazzling Met debut in this production.

French mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes was Isolier, the Count’s page and romantic rival, and American baritone Nathan Gunn was Ory’s pal Rimbaud.

Maurizio Benini conducted the Met Orchestra and Chorus in Rossini’s delightful and virtuosic score.

Le Comte Ory will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, March 20. Listen to it on Classical IPR.

Click here to view a synopsis of Le Comte Ory.