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.

Cast

Antonio Salvadori

Guglielmo Tell

Salvatore Fisichella

Arnoldo

Alfredo Zanazzo

Gualtiero Farst

Jacob Will

Melchthal

Margaret Chalker

Jemmy

Nadine Asher

Edwige

Thomas Dewald

Un pescatore

Howard Nelson

Leutoldo

Alfred Muff

Gessler

Maria Chiara

Matilde

Peter Straka

Rodolfo

Peter Stern

Un cacciatore