Rossini's 'Le Comte Ory' to Finish Met Summer Encore Season

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Count Ory, disguised as female religious pilgrim, attempts to get closer to his love Countess Adèle.

POTSDAM, NY (08/04/2011)(readMedia)-- Hilarity ensues in Rossini's comic opera "Le Comte Ory" when disguises lead to mistaken identity in a fierce love triangle.

Audiences are invited to join in the fun for the final presentation of the 2011 Summer Encores from The Met: Live in HD to grace North Country movie theaters this season. The comic opera will be presented at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 8 in Potsdam's Roxy Theater.

The spring Metropolitan Opera performance features Juan Diego Flórez as Count Ory, Joyce DiDonato as the Isolier and Diana Damrau as the sought-after countess Adèle.

The opera will be performed in French, with English subtitles. The expected running time is two hours, 30 minutes.

Rossini's rarely-performed comic opera "Le Comte Ory" is the tale of a love-struck Count Ory disguising himself as a hermit and a nun to get closer to the beautiful lonesome countess Adèle. The Isolier, who disguises as the opposite sex, exposes Ory in his attempts to get closer to the countess.

The Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world will return to Potsdam this summer through the third season of The Met: Live in HD Summer Encores. The 2011 Summer Encore season will celebrate the masters of Italian opera, with productions of works by Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti and Rossini.

In the North Country, SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music and J.S. Cinemas sponsor the 2010-11 season of The Met: Live in HD.

Special summer ticket pricing is discounted: $13 for adults, $11 for senior citizens, $9 for students and $7 for youths aged 18 and under.

Tickets are available by calling the Community Performance Series Box Office at (315) 267-2277, or visiting the Roxy Theater or Northern Music & Video in downtown Potsdam or the CPS Box Office in the lobby of Sara M. Snell Music Theater. You can also reserve tickets online by visiting www.cpspotsdam.org.

For more information on the 2010-11 The Met: Live in HD season, visit the Metropolitan Opera website at www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/broadcast/hd_events_next.aspx.

To learn more about The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.

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Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York's only All-Steinway institution, and is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2011.

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