William Tell (1987)
“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.
Director: Daniel Schmid
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Antonio Salvadori as Guglielmo Tell |
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Salvatore Fisichella as Arnoldo |
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Alfredo Zanazzo as Gualtiero Farst |
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Jacob Will as Melchthal |
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Margaret Chalker as Jemmy |
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Nadine Asher as Edwige |
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Thomas Dewald as Un pescatore |
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Howard Nelson as Leutoldo |
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Alfred Muff as Gessler |
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Maria Chiara as Matilde |
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Peter Straka as Rodolfo |
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Peter Stern as Un cacciatore |
| Art | Erich Wonder | Set Designer |
| Sound | Nello Santi | Conductor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Christian Gasc | Costume Designer |
| Crew | Jean-Louis Bert | Choreographer |
| Crew | Elisabeth Schweeger | Dramaturgy |
| Directing | Daniel Schmid | Director |
| Writing | Hippolyte Bis | Writer |
| Writing | Étienne de Jouy | Writer |
| Writing | Friedrich Schiller | Novel |
