The hours leading up to the final dress rehearsal had been electric with high artistic expectations. Backstage at the Royal Opera House was a labyrinth of frantic theatrical magic. Costume dressers steamed hundred-yard skirts of silk tulle; hair stylists pinned delicate diamond tiaras into elaborate chignons; and the sound of cellos, horns, and violins drifted from the pit as Maestro Corelli conducted the lyrical overture of Act II. Madame Odette…
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