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 ...

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 ...

Here's your chance, opera lovers. You may never have another opportunity to see Gioachino Rossini's dramatic rouser, "William Tell," the four-hour epic about Switzerland's 14th century (perhaps ...

I’ll admit I was secretly hoping that the extensive ballet-music might have been trimmed as part of the pruning process, but as it turned out Amir Hosseinpour‘s hyper-virtuosic and often disturbing ...

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 ...