Count Ory is Rossini’s first original opera in French, based on a libretto by Scribe and Delestre-Poirson and inspired by an old Picardy ballad about a certain Count Ory, who disguised himself as a nun in order to break into convents and infringe on the sisters' hospitality. Rossini and his team transport the action from a convent to a castle and from nuns to faithful wives of crusaders. While Rossini reuses some musical numbers from his earlier works, the result is a unique and coherent opus with its own individual atmosphere, which is neither a comic French opera with spoken dialogue, nor an Italian comic opera with non-accompanied recitatives.
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