William Tell may not be Gioachino Rossini's most famous opera, but it does have at least two tunes that rank among the most familiar music ever composed. Plenty of operas can boast of a single ...

William Tell may not be Gioachino Rossini's most famous opera, but it does have at least two tunes that rank among the most familiar music ever composed. Plenty of operas can boast of a single ...

Although the composer lived for almost another 40 years, William Tell was to be his final opera, and many suggest his finest. For his 39th opera, Rossini turned to the legend of William Tell with a ...

William Tell was the first serious opera the Italian-born Rossini authored in Paris. Upon granting his residency in 1824, the French government contracted him to produce a work for the Paris ...

Bringing William Tell, Rossini's last and longest opera, to the Proms has been an enjoyable challenge for its conductor My first exposure to Rossini's last opera, William Tell came, like most ...

He Sang/She Sang is a new podcast from WQXR for the opera-curious and opera superfans who want to know what all those big voices are really singing about. The podcast follows the radio broadcast ...

William Tell is an opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play William Tell ...

a director who absolutely respects the music,” he says of international opera director who together with the state company is tackling Rossini’s epic William Tell this weekend. It hasn't been ...

He’s directing the first Irish production since 1877 of Rossini’s William Tell, an opera by an Italian about a Swiss myth as turned into a play by a German (Friedrich Schiller). The opera was ...

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), the ridiculously successful composer who wrote 39 operas including of “The Barber of Seville,” retired after his final opera, “William Tell,” in 1829 — at the age of 37.

Their trio is one of Rossini's finest ensembles. William Tell may not be Gioachino Rossini's most famous opera, but it does have at least two tunes that rank among the most familiar music ever ...