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.
- Genre: TV Movie, Music
- Studio: Opernhaus Zürich, Condor Films, SRF
- Keyword: opera, archer, italian opera, opera live performance, swedish history
- Cast: Antonio Salvadori, Salvatore Fisichella, Alfredo Zanazzo, Jacob Will, Margaret Chalker, Nadine Asher
