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 as Guglielmo Tell
- Salvatore Fisichella as Arnoldo
- Alfredo Zanazzo as Gualtiero Farst
- Jacob Will as Melchthal
- Margaret Chalker as Jemmy
- Nadine Asher as Edwige
- Thomas Dewald as Un pescatore
- Howard Nelson as Leutoldo
- Alfred Muff as Gessler
- Maria Chiara as Matilde