βLet us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have merely forgotten it.β (Daniel Schmid) This is the material from which the most Swiss of all operas is made: the legendary Wilhelm Tell β 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 β all this and much more in the thirty-seventh and last opera by Rossini.
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
Peter Straka
as Rodolfo
Peter Stern
as Un cacciatore
