'William Tell '
An opera in four acts
Libretto by Jouy and Bis
(after Schiller)
Music by Rossini
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader. Steven Staryk )
CONDUCTED BY VINCENZO BELLEZZA
Chorus Master, Mario Tagini
Producer, Bruno Nofri
SCENE: Switzerland in the year 1340
ACT 1
An open space by a lake on May Day
Denis Stevens writes on page 6
by Nikolaus Pevsner
Last autumn Dr. Pevsner travelled into the mountains of Asturias in northern Spain in search of some remote churches and the remains of a curious palace built some i,ioo years ago.
ACT 2
A clearing in the woods
Translated and adapted from
Jules Huret 's ' Enquete sur l'Evolution Litteraire ' by Robert Baldick , D.Phil.
Lecturer in French at Pembroke College, Oxford
Third of six programmes
ACT 3
Scene 1: A room in the Governor's residence Scene 2: The market place in Altdorf
10.30 app. Interlude
10.35 app. Act 4
Scene I: Mclchtal's hut in the valley Scene 2: The same as Act I
