ROSSINI; G.: Occasione fa il ladro

L’occasione fa il ladro is one of the five one-act operas – farsa giocosa – in which the teenage Rossini first demonstrated his operatic genius. This farce about arranged marriages; role reversals and other amorous confusions is; in musical terms; by far the most riotous of these five operatic jewels ; all performed in the intricately decorated Rococo Theatre at Schwetzingen Palace.