TORONTO -- Such is the glory of the music Gioacchino Rossini composed for his Il viaggio a Reims (The Journey To Rheims) that it is likely to take you awhile to realize it's not going anyplace.

Quite literally, it turns out, thanks to a libretto by Luigi Balocchi that is so delicate it can't even summon the strength to move itself out of a French spa called the Hotel of the Golden Lily, the denizens of which are constantly threatening to decamp for Rheims, for the crowning of Charles X.
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