William Tell

“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.

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  Antonio Salvadori

  Guglielmo Tell
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  Salvatore Fisichella

  Arnoldo
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  Alfredo Zanazzo

  Gualtiero Farst
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  Jacob Will

  Melchthal
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  Margaret Chalker

  Jemmy
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  Thomas Dewald

  Un pescatore
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  Howard Nelson

  Leutoldo
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  Alfred Muff

  Gessler
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  Maria Chiara

  Matilde
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  Peter Straka

  Rodolfo