A summer season of works staged at the Paris Opera, 1828-65.
Rossini's last opera (1829) with its elevating plot - the liberation of Switzerland from
Austrian rule in 1314 - and an abundance of tragic, picturesque scenes, was the high spot of early romantic opera.
(sung in the original French).
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS RPO/LAMBERTO GARDELLI
Acts 1 and 2
4.15 Richard Osborne on Guillaume Tell and Rossini's relations with the Paris Opera.
4.25 Acts 3 and 4.
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