“A woman can do what she likes”: Rossinian love in L'Italiana in Algeri
Forum Italicum : A Journal of Italian Studies
Published online on February 16, 2026
Abstract
Forum Italicum, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 214-247, May 2026.
While love and opera are commonly associated, the comic operas of Gioachino Rossini are not the first to come to mind. Instead, Rossini has a reputation for detachment, irony, and a lack of realism; absent too is the psychological insight of Mozart and ...
While love and opera are commonly associated, the comic operas of Gioachino Rossini are not the first to come to mind. Instead, Rossini has a reputation for detachment, irony, and a lack of realism; absent too is the psychological insight of Mozart and ...