William Tell (opera)
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William Tell is a French-language 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 Wilhelm Tell
Costume designs by Eugène Du Faget for the original production: Laure Cinti-Damoreau as Mathilde, Adolphe Nourrit as Arnold Melchtal, and Nicolas Levasseur as Walter Furst
1829 lithograph of Rossini
A Mountain Village, set design for Guglielmo Tell, act 1 scene 1 (1899)
Set design for act 1 in a 19th-century production
William Tell
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William Tell is a legendary folk hero of Switzerland. He is known for shooting an apple off his son's head.
William Tell (opera)
…Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, which, in turn, drew on the William Tell legend. The opera was Rossini's last, although he lived for nearly 40 more years. Fabio Luisi said that Rossini planned for Guillaume Tell to be his…
Tell is arrested for not saluting Gessler's hat (mosaic at the Swiss National Museum, Hans Sandreuter, 1901)
Tell's leap (Tellensprung) from the boat of his captors at the Axen cliffs; study by Ernst Stückelberg (1879) for his fresco at the Tellskapelle.
First page of the Tell legend in the White Book of Sarnen (pp. 447–449)
A depiction of the apple-shot scene in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition)