The Merola Opera Program continues its Summer Festival season with a fully staged production of Rossini’s rarely performed comedic gem, Le Comte Ory. Metropolitan Opera conductor Pierre Vallet makes ...

The Merola Opera Program will continue its Summer Festival season with a fully staged production of Rossini’s rarely performed comedic gem, Le Comte Ory. Metropolitan Opera conductor Pierre Vallet ...

NIGHTS (AND AFTERNOONS) AT THE OPERA / This is the ninth in a continuing series examining the works that the Metropolitan Opera will present through June during its "The Met: Live in HD" series in ...

Bartlett Sher and his Broadway design team have come with an all-purpose production for that Rossini rarity "Le Comte Ory," being given its company premiere. Staging an opera as a play within a play ...

Running an opera company is about as staid a way to make a living as bull-riding in a rodeo. The stakes can be existential, the opportunities for humiliation boundless, the glory confined to a ...

Ménages a trois are rare sights on the stage of the Lyric Opera, but one makes an appearance in “Le Comte Ory,” the rather ribald comic opera from Gioachino Rossini, here to warm the cockles of ...

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 ...