William Tell

Overview

“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have merely forgotten it.” (Daniel Schmid) This is the material from which the most Swiss of all operas is made: the legendary Wilhelm Tell – a Swiss hero: straightforward, a primus inter pares of the indomitable freedom fighters, a good shot, surefire. A myth that becomes a poetic playground: nature in turmoil, the struggle for freedom and forbidden love. A legendary overture at a gallop with an iconic post horn motif – all this and much more in the thirty-seventh and last opera by Rossini.

Cast

Antonio Salvadori

Guglielmo Tell

Salvatore Fisichella

Arnoldo

Alfredo Zanazzo

Gualtiero Farst

Jacob Will

Melchthal

Margaret Chalker

Jemmy

N/A

Nadine Asher

Edwige

Thomas Dewald

Un pescatore

Howard Nelson

Leutoldo

Alfred Muff

Gessler

Maria Chiara

Matilde

Peter Straka

Rodolfo

N/A

Peter Stern

Un cacciatore