Organization

Conductor

Didier Talpain

Stage director

Emmanuelle Cordoliani

Set designer

Todor Ignatov

Lighting designer

Vincent Muster

Costume designer

Julie Scobeltzine

Singer

Tenor

Valeriy Georgiev

Count Ory

Bass

Geo Chobanov

The Tutor

Delyan Slavov

Mezzo-soprano

Vyara Zhelezova

Isolier

Blagovesta Stateva

Baritone

Plamen Dimitrov

Raimbaud

Svilen Nikolov

Soprano

Irina Zhekova

Countess Adele

Iva Ionova

Silvia Angelova

Lady Ragonde

Galina Velikova

Alice

State Opera Varna

Le comte Ory -  (Count Ory)

Varna

Bulgaria

Opera Theatre

Le comte Ory Rossini

Public

Approved

In 1822, only 30 years old, but already widely recognized as an idol of the Italian National Opera, Gioachino Rossini met Ludwig van Beethoven - 51 years old, deaf, quarrelsome and in very poor health.
Communicating with him by writing (because he could not hear him), Beethoven remarked: "Ah, Rossini! So you are the one who created The Barber of Seville! Congratulations! As long as Italian opera exists, I will continue to play. Never try to write anything other than opera buff - any other style would be violence against your own nature "...

At the age of 38, Gioachino Rossini already has 38 operas behind him. "Count Ori" together with "Wilhelm Tell" is one of the last among them. It was created in 1828 as part of the musical material in it is borrowed from another of his works - "Journey through Reims", written three years earlier for the coronation of the French king - Charles H.

"Count Ori" is a comic opera and recreates a humorous story, but there are still many differences with the modern genre of "opera comedian": while the latter is usually built on short lyrical numbers and spoken dialogues, "Count Ori" contains "highly sustained, even massive musical forms ”, accompanied by an accompanying recitative.

And although here we find Rossini's characteristic floral orchestration, her short overture is rather strange, ending with a sigh-like pizzicato in string instruments.

The premiere of "The Count of Orie" was on August 20, 1828 at the Paris Opera under the direction of Francois Antoine Habenek. She once again brought Rossini fame, giving him endless popularity for 20 years.
A few months after the Paris performance, the opera was staged at the Royal Opera House in London, in Italian!

Two years later, on December 16, 1830, it premiered in New Orleans at the Théâtre d'Orléans, and on August 22, 1831, in New York.

English

Count Ory by Rossini, From (2011/2012), Directed by Emmanuelle Cordoliani,, Conductor Didier Talpain, Opera Theatre, Varna, Bulgaria

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