GUILLAUME TELL

Giacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
Opera in four acts in Italian
Libretto: V.J. Etienne de Jouy and L.F. Biss after Schiller
Premièr at Opéra, Paris – 3 August 1829
11, 12†, 16, 19 December 1965
Teatro San Carlo, Napoli

OPENING PERFORMANCE OF TEATRO SAN CARLO DI NAPOLI

Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Chorus master: Michele Lauro
Stage director: Sandro Bolchi
Scene and costumes: Veniero Colastanti & John Moore

Guillaume Tell GIANGIACOMO GUELFI baritone
Hedwige Tell’s wife ANNA MARIA ROTA mezzo-soprano
Jemmy Tell’s son LEYLA BERIANI soprano
Arrigo suitor of Mathilde GIANNI RAIMONDI tenor
Melcthal Arnold’s father BRUNO MARAGONI bass
Gessler governor of Schwitz and Uri ENRICO CAMPI bass
Mathilde Gessler’s sister LEYLA GENCER soprano [Role debut]
Rudolph captain in Gessler’s guard MARIO GUGGIA tenor
Walter Furst PAOLO WASHINGTON bass
Leuthold asheapherd SILVANO PAGLIUCA bass
Ruedi a fisherman PIETRO BOTTAZZO tenor

Place: Switzerland
Time: Thirteenth Century

† Recording date 

Photos © FOTO TRONCONE, Napoli

Sketches © VENIERO COLASANTI & JOHN MOORE





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GUGLIELMO TELL
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Opera News - Viewpoint: Listening to Rossini

... Guillaume Tell's Mathilde, a distressed damsel sung in the twentieth century by
full-voiced sopranos such as Rosa Ponselle, Leyla Gencer, Montserrat Caballe.

COMPLETE RECORDING                        

1965.12.12

Recording Excerpt [1965.12.12]                       
Selva opoca, Scena e Romanza Act II
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