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Above: Metropolitan Opera Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi; Below: Anna Netrebko as the title character of Donizetti's "Anna Bolena." Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

Rob Besserer, Jennifer Check, Isabel Leonard, Paata Burchuladze, Maurizio Muraro, and Javier Camarena in Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera