Writer-director Nick Hamm based William Tell on Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 drama, itself the source of Rossini’s opera. After a sluggish opening, in which Tell (Claes Bang), an ex-Crusader turned ...

This was a light but very professional concert that used movies as the way of presenting some of the most popular music from the operatic repertoire.

A Touch of Brass will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in Ramsey Theatre, located in the Peterson Fine Arts Building at ...

YEARS ago this week, Ilminster’s Warehouse theatre was visited by a top UK brass band, who played a “wonderfully varied programme” ...

From Broadway hits to romantic opera date nights and thrilling sports events, we've rounded up the best concerts and happenings this February in Houston. See how the cube opens to unveil plants, ...

Gioachino Rossini’s Overture to “William Tell” and Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 2 (“The American Four Seasons”) round out the program. Experience it at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in ...

Early 14th-century Swiss folk hero Wilhelm Tell has been repeatedly memorialised on the page and stage most notably in Friedrich Schiller’s play and Rossini’s subsequent opera Guillaume Tell ...

This, in turn, inspired the opera, William Tell, by Rossini, which premiered in 1829. Engraving of a performance of Rossini's opera 'William Tell' (Photo by Apic/Bridgeman via Getty Images) His ...

Even now, those of a certain vintage will recall not only Hollywood movies that glamorized smoking but commercials for Lark and Marlboro cigarettes set to Rossini’s “William Tell Overture ...