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Lyric Opera of Kansas City's The Pearl Fishers
Andrew Sinclair and Zandra Rhodes' hugely colourful and affecting “Pearl Fishers” for Kansas City Lyric Opera
Rossini's The Touchstone triumphs at Wolf Trap
Wolf Trap Opera delivers high camp Rossini true to the composer.
Musical statues: Ronconi's static Semiramide
In a staging new to Florence, the action is often merely a set of friezes, singers immobilised on a pair of moving plinths.