Rossini: Guillaume Tell
Rossini: Guillaume Tell

Rossini: Guillaume Tell

7.0

4 hr 7 min

2013-01-01

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The hero of this admirably complete August 2013 Guillaume Tell from Pesaro is homegrown maestro Michele Mariotti. The inimitable overture is (mercifully) unstaged and terrifically played, with splendid cello and flute solos: the fine standard never flags. Rossini’s extraordinary 1829 score audibly presages Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Glinka, Verdi and Wagner, among many others. Graham Vick’s direction privileges class conflict, with a clenched fist on the red-and-white forecurtain. The Edwardian costumes place Austrians in white evening garb; the black-clad Swiss polish the floor while the rulers savor a filming (much of that to follow) — the fisherman Ruodi, in a boat with a blonde and fake scenery, with Tell and his family providing tech support. Vick deploys geographical and historical kitsch liberally but not (always) pointlessly. Ron Howell’s pretentious, mannered choreography, however, beggars belief.

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Characters

Nicola Alaimo

Nicola Alaimo

Guillaume Tell

Simone Alberghini

Simone Alberghini

Melcthal

Juan Diego Flórez

Juan Diego Flórez

Arnold

Amanda Forsythe

Amanda Forsythe

Jemmy

Simón Orfila

Simón Orfila

Walter Furst

Marina Rebeka

Marina Rebeka

Mathilde

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