From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Glyndebourne makes its annual visit to the Proms with an effervescent comic opera by Rossini. It is based on a real-life Count Ory, a philandering medieval Don Juan, who sets out to seduce the beautiful Adele disguised first as a hermit and then as a nun.

Rossini Le Comte Ory

Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic, conductor Andrew Davis

Act 1

8.10 The Thieving Magpie?
Richard Osborne ponders Rossini's reputation as a relentless self-borrower.

8.30 Act 2