William Tell

William Tell

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 6, 1987

Runtime

2h 58m

Genres

TV Movie, Music

Original Title

Guglielmo Tell

Production Companies

Opernhaus Zürich, Condor Films, SRF

Director

Daniel Schmid

Description

“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.