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Rossini’s penultimate opera, Le Comte Ory, received its first staging at the Metropolitan Opera this season. This is a charming work that is Rossini just below his best – which means that it’s very good, indeed.

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The opera needs three virtuoso singers well versed in the bel canto style. In Juan Diego Flórez, Joyce DiDonato, and Diana Damrau the Met had the best that the world has to offer.

The libretto of Le Comte Ory is such a mish mash of the original show on which it’s based that the librettists declined to have their names on the printed libretto.

The title role is another example of opera’s unsuccessful seducers – think Don Giovanni whose successes are all in the past. He gets nowhere during the stage action of Mozart’s masterpiece.

There’s no point in describing the silly goings on other than they give Rossini a loom on which to weave a series of very attractive pieces that show of the talents of gifted