Rossini: Guillaume Tell / Foster-Williams, Spyres, Howarth, Fogliani, Virtuosi Brunensis

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Performed for the first time in its original uncut version, this production of Guillaume Tell was the jewel in the crown of the 25-year history of the ‘Rossini in Wildbad’ opera festival. 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. Although it was composed for the complex demands of the Paris Opéra, numerous dances, choruses and arias were dropped for reasons of practicality. These are restored in the present recording which also includes the stunning finale of the shorter 1831 version of the opera.



Product Description:


  • Catalog Number: 8660363-66


  • UPC: 730099036375


  • Label: Naxos


  • Composer: Gioachino Rossini


  • Conductor: Antonino Fogliani


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Virtuosi Brunensis


  • Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams, Artavazd Sargsyan, Giulio Pelligra, Judith Howarth, Michael Spyres, Nahuel Di Pierro, Raffaele Facciola, Tara Stafford