William Tell (1987)

8.0/10 • 178 min • TV Movie Music

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

Salvatore Fisichella

Alfredo Zanazzo

Gualtiero Farst

Jacob Will

Margaret Chalker

Thomas Dewald

Howard Nelson

Alfred Muff

Maria Chiara

Peter Straka

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