William Tell

  • September 1987
  • 2hrs

    58mins

  • TV Movie
  • Music
  • Directed by

    Daniel Schmid,

    Starring

    Antonio Salvadori,

    Salvatore Fisichella,

    Alfredo Zanazzo,

    Jacob Will

    ...

    “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.