![]() ![]() Post by JackyT » Tue 11:41 pm An evening to remember for all the wrong reasons: Instead of the ballet scene we were subjected to an extended rape, in which the young lady was eventually completely naked, lying on a table surrounded by baying soldiers. *Please note that Guillaume Tell contains a scene of sexual violence and brief nudity in Act III and is therefore only suitable for viewers over the age of 15. Guillaume Tell at Royal Opera House booed on opening night. In its avoidance of the picturesque, this production refuses to lull us into reverie. The exciting young Italian director Damiano Michieletto makes his debut with what promises to be a spectacular and thought-provoking production. Tell relates a story of murderous tyranny, but the euphony of Rossini’s music can trick a twenty-first-century audience into imagining it as a kind of Tyrolean romance, decorative and unthreatening. Rossini’s operatic swansong Guillaume Tell is not the easiest of pieces to produce because, even ignoring the vast orchestral forces that it demands, no opera house could ever muster the resources required to stage it literally. Rossini’s score is one of his most outstanding, and packed with glorious arias, choruses and ensembles, as those who have heard Antonio Pappano’s admired recording – which also features Gerald Finley (Tell), John Osborn (Arnold) and Malin Byström (Mathilde) – will know. The opera’s theme is liberty, as exemplified in the struggle against Austrian occupation led by the Swiss archer and patriot William Tell: in the opera’s most famous scene, Tell shoots an apple from his son’s head, a feat that inspires his countrymen to revolt. The story of the legendary Swiss patrio Guillaume Tell, determined to free Switzerland from Austrian rule, is told through magnificent arias, ensembles and. ![]() Opening with what is arguably the most exciting of all operatic overtures, Rossini’s final opera helped to lay the foundations of the genre of French grand opéra that dominated European stages throughout the mid-19th century. Opera in 4 acts / running time 4 hours 50 minutes including two intervals ![]() Opening the most exciting of all operatic overtures, Rossini’s final opera helped to lay the foundations of the genre of French grand opéra. ![]()
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