Le Comte Ory

Le Comte Ory was a comic opera in two acts given at the Opéra on 20 August 1828 with music by Giaocchino Rossini and a libretto by the team of Eugène Scribe and Charles Delestre-Poirson. Its score was based upon the music the composer had already written for II Viaggio a Reims performed at the Italians’ theatre on 19 June 1825 to celebrate the coronation of Charles X at Rheims. Its libretto was derived from a short vaudeville that Scribe and Delestre-Poirson had written in 1817. The first of…