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A bland staging: at the end what really emerged was Rossini’s glorious music, its intelligent construction and perfect beauty.

ETO's extracts from Rossini's serious operas at the Hackney Empire lacked spark and dynamism, but saw a fine showing from Elena Xanthoudakis and Catherine Carby.