Quicksilver Music Rossini's 'L'occasione fa il ladro' - enjoyed by ROBERT ANDERSON '... a performance of bubbling vitality ...'

Suitcases, as any traveller knows, have a wanderlust of their own. Mine have on occasion preferred anywhere in the world to Moscow, Teheran or Sanaa. The situation has seemed to me invariably tragic; it says much for the young Rossini's genius that the swapping of a pair of suitcases turns into the the most glorious comic fun. This review, indeed, should have been devoted to Wozzeck; but computers also have a mind of their own, and mine rejected Berg as unplayable while hugging Rossini to its judicious bosom. I could not have been more relieved.

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