(Photo: Andrea Mazzoni) Composed in 1813, “L’italiana in Algeri” remains a masterpiece of bel canto dramma giocoso. Its plot, which worked in Rossini’s Europe, continues to function today, albeit from a different perspective: that of clichés associated with immigration. In the Ottocento, a remote setting such as Algiers aroused the public’s curiosity; Rossini and his librettist Angelo Anelli filled the story {…}