Musically and visually, the Metropolitan Opera’s first staging of Gioachino Rossini's Guillaume Tell in over 80 years is a tremendous success. Musically, the production is a triumph. During the ...
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 ...
Rossini’s epic telling of the William Tell fable returns to the Met stage after an absence of more than 80 years, in a new production by Pierre Audi. Gerald Finley sings one of his signature roles as ...
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With the thermometer at 30º, the Pimm’s bar in overdrive and children cooling off splashily in the fountain outside, the prospect of entering a stifling Queen Elizabeth Hall for a four-hour concert ...
One Thursday per month at the Petit Théâtre, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie invites you to come and have a drink and explore its amazing record collection on the theme of the production being staged.
It’s hard to decide which was more upsetting: the loud booing of a rape scene (see news report here) or the inept production that contained it. William Tell, you’ll recall, was the legendary Swiss ...
Rossini’s epic telling of the William Tell fable returns to the Met stage after an absence of more than 80 years, in a new production by Pierre Audi. Gerald Finley sings one of his signature roles as ...