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As light and elegant as the wedding cake that fills the stage for the final scene, Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” (”Cinderella”) is helping to usher out the Metropolitan Opera season _ providing a nice contrast to the heavier diet of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle.
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