Gioachino Rossini (born Pesaro, 29 February 1792 died Paris, 13 November 1868)Įtienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Louis-Florent Bis.ĭrama Wilhelm Tell (1804) by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805).įirst Performance: Paris (Théâtre de L'Académie Royale de Musique), 3 August 1829.įirst Performance in UK: London (Drury Lane). Please click here to view other events at the Royal Opera House.1856 - Mr Beale's Italian Opera Company Edinburgh 1856 - Mr Beale's Italian Opera Company Glasgow 1964 - Glasgow Grand Opera Society Glasgow 1992 - Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society Ellon, Aberdeenshire 2014 - Teatro Regio, Turin Edinburgh

Please note: Sung in French with English surtitles. Rossini made full use of his considerable powers of invention to create some of his greatest music, with highlights such as Tell's Act III aria 'Sois immobile' and the astonishing Act II trio 'Quand l'Helvétie est un champ de supplices' clearly paving the way for Berlioz, Verdi and Wagner.Īt the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden from 29 June until 17 July, book your Guillaume Tell tickets today! Italian rising star Damiano Michieletto (La bohème and Falstaff at Salzburg Festival Un ballo in maschera at La Scala, Milan) makes his Royal Opera House debut with a contemporary production for The Royal Opera, the Company's first since 1990. The score – harmonically daring and fiercely difficult for the singers – has an opulent architectural grandeur, heightened with vivid evocations of the soaring Swiss landscape and an incisive dramatic interpretation of Schiller's heroic play. Rossini's letters suggest he knew Guillaume Tell would be his farewell to opera – an idea that seems to be confirmed by the magnificent music he was inspired to produce. He wouldn't write another opera in the remaining 39 years of his life. Guillaume Tell had its premiere in 1829, when Gioachino Rossini was 37.

When he helps a Swiss prisoner escape Austrian justice he comes to the attention of the governor Gesler – who sadistically forces Tell to shoot an apple off his son's head. The Swiss hero William Tell longs to liberate his people from the cruel Austrian occupation.

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