Decoding the music masterpieces: Rossini’s William Tell, and its famous overture
- Written by Madeline Roycroft, PhD candidate and tutor in music history, University of Melbourne
The cast of Victorian Opera's staging of William Tell. Victorian Opera
Although it boasts one of the most famous sequences of music in existence, Gioachino Rossini’s William Tell is hardly a staple of the operatic repertoire. At five hours long in its original composition, and with a challengingly high male singing part, it is rarely heard in...
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