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Young and pretty Raina has lots of idealistic notions about how romance and war should be until she meets a dashing Swiss mercenary.
Filled with hummable, upbeat melodies, Gioacchino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" is the pop music of the opera world.
Christmas songs are so familiar that it's probably easy for performers to be lulled into thinking that they don't need to practice them much.