Franche-Comté | comte | Comte de Lautréamont | Auguste Comte | Kid Ory | Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse | Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau | Ory Okolloh | Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon | Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing | Comte | Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally | Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac | Comte de Saint-Germain (french comic) | Comte de Saint-Germain | Comte de Rochambeau | Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain | Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy | University of Franche-Comté | Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy | François de Montmorency, ''comte de Bouteville | Comte de Pierredon | Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes | Charles Comte | Brie-Comte-Robert | Béville-le-Comte | Antoine, 1st comte de Noailles | Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine |
After completing his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Vera Schwarz in Salzburg, Van Kesteren was invited in 1954 to Berlin's Komische Oper to sing Nurreddin in Cornelius's The Barber of Baghdad under the direction of Walter Felsenstein and to sing the title role in the first performance in Germany of Rossini's Le comte Ory under the direction of Carl Ebert at the Stadtische Oper in 1956.
Extensive sections of the marketplace scene in Act I are danced to various passages from Rossini's opera comique Le Comte Ory (1828), whilst the round dance in the same scene is taken from Paulli's music for Bournonville's ballet, The White Rose.