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The quotidian and the absurd: La Scala's rib-tickling Le Comte Ory

By James Imam, 07 July 2014
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“Flórez dispatched fiendish cascades in his firm tenore di grazie with ease”
Reviewed at Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 4 July 2014
Programme
Rossini, Le Comte Ory
Performers
Teatro alla Scala
Donato Renzetti, Conductor
Laurent Pelly, Director
Juan Diego Flórez, Count Ory
Colin Lee, Count Ory
Aleksandra Kurzak, Countess Adèle
Pretty Yende, Countess Adèle
Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Isolier
Chiara Amarù, Isolier
Marina de Liso, Ragonde
Stéphane Degout, Raimbaud
Nicola Alaimo, Raimbaud
Roberto Tagliavini, The Tutor
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James Imam
James Imam
James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.