(Photo: Bad Wildbad Festival) Among Rossini’s early Venetian farse, “L’occasione fa il ladro” remains one of the most irresistibly entertaining. Written when the composer was barely twenty, it already displays the dramatic flair, melodic abundance and astonishing theatrical instinct that would soon make him Europe’s dominant operatic voice. The libretto’s improbable chain of exchanged identities may stretch credulity, but Rossini’s {…}