En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Oleg Tsybulko

In a staging new to Florence, the action is often merely a set of friezes, singers immobilised on a pair of moving plinths. 

Rimsky-Korsakov's opera remain rarities outside Russia, but the Bolshoi Opera made The Tsar’s Bride the anchor of this year's Hong Kong Arts Festival programme.