Rossini: L'Occasione Fa Il Ladro (Elizaveta Martirosyan/ Fanie Antonelou/ Gianpiero Ruggeri/ Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra/ Antonino Fogliani) (Naxos: 8.660314-15)

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Composed by the young Gioachino Rossini in eleven days to comply with a contractual commitment, L'occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes A Thief) is a comedy of multiple confusions. Count Alberto, travelling to be wed to a fiancee he has yet to meet, leaves an inn with the wrong suitcase. Don Parmenione audaciously adopts the Count's identity, determined to take the bride for himself. This single-act burletta is a swift and deftly plotted moral drama, Rossini's exuberant inspiration poured into interactions both tender and hilariously bewildering.