Going on 40 years since her enchanting live video of the youthful Gioacchino Rossini’s evergreen romp, Cecilia Bartoli returns as the wily shut-in teenager Rosina, the role that put her on the map. If that sounds like she’s tempting fate, you don’t know your Cecilia Bartoli, the shrewdest packager of her own assets in the business. And not only of her own. As artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, Bartoli has scored bull’s-eye after bull’s-eye, diversifying her personal portfolio even as she has created glittering opportunities for her colleagues. Her director on this occasion is the beloved Rolando Villazón. Reinventing himself after his all-too-brief tenure as a tenor to conjure with, Villazón promises to embed Rossini’s perhaps all-too-familiar shenanigans in a “meta-theatrical dimension.” The quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti is on hand as Arnoldo, who loves old movies but has trouble policing the interface between the world of his daydreams and the world of everyday reality. Arnoldo? Rossini never heard of him. Still, we’re curious. —Matthew Gurewitsch