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The company returned to its home at the Academy of Music after three years with a brutalist take on Verdi's middle-career masterpiece.

Setting the opera in the backyard of a suburban house feels refreshingly honest: the ridiculous and simplistic tale of the evil witch, the prince and the maiden is rightfully returned to the arena of children's games, and adults look on indulgently, with a wink.