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Roger Norrington is a man who has smelt grease-paint in his time. Before he became the urbane megastar of the international period-instrument circuit, he plied his trade, figuratively speaking, in the opera pit-though being Norrington he invariably rejoiced in the fact that many of the venues visited by Kent Opera in its halcyon years were bereft of those subterranean dungeons that do nothing but harm to the interplay of voices and orchestra in the operas of Mozart and Rossini. In fact, the Rossini revival was in its infancy in the 1970s and I don't recall Norrington bringing his forensic genius to bear in the theatre on anything other than Il barbiere di Siviglia.