Juan Diego Flórez Stars in the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Le Comte Ory

Flórez joins an all-star case and production team for the Met’s premiere production of Rossini’s comic opera

Tenor superstar Juan Diego Flórez, widely regarded as the world’s greatest bel canto tenor performing today, tonight adds another new production at the Metropolitan Opera to his long list of accomplishments. Almost 200 years after the opera’s premiere in Paris, Le Comte Ory finally arrives at the Met. The opera, which Flórez has previously recorded on Deutsche Grammophon, will also feature soprano Diana Damrau and mezzo Joyce DiDonato in the stellar cast in a production led by Bartlett Sher.

This production of Le Comte Ory will be Flórez’s fifth new production at the Metropolitan Opera since he made his house debut in 2002 in another Rossini opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia. 2002 was also the year of the tenor’s Decca recital debut album, Rossini arias. Since his breakout performance at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 1996, Flórez has regularly returned to the composer whose works have made him a worldwide sensation and performed in all of the world’s greatest opera houses, given recitals in all major musical capitals including Carnegie Hall in New York, and of course headlined numerous new productions of both popular and largely forgotten bel canto operas. From capturing headlines in the New York Times when he encored an aria in 2008 (14 years after Pavarotti, who was the last singer to do so) to setting up a foundation in Peru with the aim of encouraging the creation of children’s and youth orchestras and choirs on the national level, Flórez has maintained a busy career with the goal of bringing great music to as many people as possible.

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