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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/115037| Title: | William Tell |
| Other Titles: | Guglielmo Tell |
| Authors: | Rossini, Gioacchino |
| Keywords: | Operas -- Librettos Operas -- Librettos -- 19th century Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868 de Jouy, Victor-Joseph Étienne, 1764-1846 Bis, Hippolyte Louis Florent, 1789-1855 Teatru Rjal (Valletta, Malta) |
| Issue Date: | 1830 |
| Citation: | Rossini, G. (1830). William Tell. Opera Librettos (OPL-707). University of Malta Library, Archives & Rare Books dept. |
| Abstract: | William Tell (French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo 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, which, in turn, drew on the William Tell legend. The opera was first performed at Drury Lane in London on 1 May 1830 (in English). Rossini's final, great, operatic masterpiece is a story of liberation, the oppressed Swiss attaining their ideal of emancipation by hounding the tyrannical Habsburgs out of their country. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/115037 |
| Appears in Collections: | Tur-Zor - A&SCOpl |
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