Rossini's William Tell, famous for the use of part of its spectacular overture as the signature tune of The Lone Ranger TV series, is one of the most demanding operas ever written. It's a thrilling ...

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, which, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tell none the less lives on, if nowhere else, in Schiller’s play and Rossini’s opera based on it, of which everyone knows the overture and – perhaps without realizing it – some of the ballet music.

You'd know it if you heard it: the spirited, rousing overture to Gioachino Rossini's final opera, "William Tell." It served as the theme music for "The Lone Ranger," and it appears so frequently in ...

There has never been any insuperable problem with the text. The original Eugène Troupenas edition (on which an admiring Hector Berlioz worked as a proof reader) is a plausible basis for any production ...

The auditorium holds its breath. It's the moment we've all been waiting for, when Guillaume Tell is forced to shoot an apple off his son's head with a bow and arrow. But when technology fails, as it ...