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Modern Luxury | Talk about practice making perfect! Isabel Leonard, who at 31 years old is one of the opera world’s most in-demand mezzo-sopranos, brings her remarkable talent and beauty to the Lyric Opera’s production of The Barber of Seville, running through February 28. Leonard plays the high-spirited and hopelessly romantic Rosina, a role she has sung at such illustrious venues as New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the San Francisco Opera. “As an actor, there is something incredible about performing the same role several times in different productions with different casts,” she says. “It is as if you are allowed to relive moments of your life in order to get them right!” Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive, 312.827.5600, lyricopera.org – Brian Dukerschein