Composed by the young Gioachino Rossini in eleven days to comply with a contractual commitment, Loccasione 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 Counts identity, determined to take the bride for himself. This single-act burletta is a swift and deftly plotted moral drama, Rossinis exuberant inspiration poured into interactions both tender and hilariously bewildering.
