Donizetti Society Past Production Report - Le Comte Ory, Zurich, 2011

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Rossini's Le Comte Ory

Opernhaus Zürich, January 23 - February 5, 2011.

Photographs by Jef Rabillon, courtesy of Opernhaus Zürich

Photographs from the 2011 Opernhaus Zürich production of Rossini's Le Comte Ory. The production was notable for being the first to use the new critical score of the opera (see here for details) and played on period instruments. It was also one of Cecilia Bartoli's comparatively rare forays into a regular opera production.

The action was moved from the time of the Crusades to the early 1960's at the time of the Algerian war, thus just as the sixties sexual and social revolution was about to get underway. Critics were very positive about both the music and the production, Bartoli and Camarena being singled out particularly for some fine Rossini singing. For comments see Marianne Zelger-Vogt, NZZ Online, January 25, Claudio Poloni, Concertonet and Oliver Schneider, Dreh Punkt Kultur, January 26. There is also some video footage on the Opernhaus TV link at http://www.opernhaus.ch/en/programm/detail.php?vorstellID=10331928 .