Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: Debuts followed at the Vienna Staatsoper in 1999 as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia and at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 2002 , again as Count Almaviva .
Simplified: Debuts followed at the Vienna State Opera in 1999 as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia and at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 2002 , again as Count Almaviva .