Le Comte Ory — HDVDARTS

Rossini Le Comte Ory opera to libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson. Directed 2009 by Lluis Pasqual at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Stars Yijie Shi (Le Comte Ory), Maria José Moreno (La Comtesse Adèle), Lorenzo Regazzo (Le Gouverneur), Laura Polverelli (Isolier), Roberto de Candia (Raimbaud), Natalia with subtitles in French and 6 other languages. Gavrilan (Dame Ragonde), and Rinnat M with subtitles in French and 6 other languages.oriah (Alice). Paolo Carignani conducts the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Prague Chamber Choir (Chorus Master Lubomir Mátl). Directed for TV by Tiziano Mancini. Sung in French. Released 2014, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

The small Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro has a good track record for mounting outstanding Rossini productions.

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

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