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    William Tell (French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell) is a French-language opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto...
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    William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, pronounced [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ; French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell; Romansh: Guglielm Tell) is a folk hero...
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    Guillaume Tell (William Tell) is an opéra comique, described as a drame mise en musique, in three acts by André Grétry, The French text was by Michel-Jean...
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  • Guillaume Tell is the French name for Swiss folk hero William Tell. Guillaume Tell can also refer to: Guillaume Tell (Grétry), a French comic opera of...
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  • and Ferdinando Paer Several libretti derived from it such as Charles-Guillaume Étienne's libretto for Nicolas Isouard (1810) and Francesco Fiorini's...
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    grand opera would be based. What became the essential features of 'grand opéra' were foreseen by Étienne de Jouy, the librettist of Guillaume Tell, in an...
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    Empire in the early 14th century. Gioachino Rossini's four-act opera Guillaume Tell was written to a French adaptation of Schiller's play. The play was...
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    The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini...
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    Gioachino Rossini (category Italian opera composers)
    the musical and dramatic foregrounds. Guillaume Tell premiered in August 1829. Rossini also provided for the Opéra a shorter, three-act version, which incorporated...
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    Half-Life 2. Guillaume was the first African-American actor to portray the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. Guillaume was born...
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    Henri-Bernard Dabadie (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    Conservatory and made his debut at the Paris Opéra in 1819 as Cinna in Spontini's La Vestale. He was to remain at the Opéra until 1836, creating roles specifically...
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    Rossini's Guillaume Tell helped found the new genre of Grand opera, a form whose most famous exponent was Giacomo Meyerbeer. Lighter opéra comique also...
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  • 2018 Jemmy in Rossini's Guillaume Tell, Chorégies d'Orange, 2019 The Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Opéra Bastille, 2019 Zerbinetta...
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  • William Tell is a hero in Swiss legend. William Tell may also refer to: William Tell (play), a drama by Friedrich Schiller William Tell (opera), by Gioacchino...
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  • This is a partial discography of William Tell (French: Guillaume Tell), an opera with music by Gioachino Rossini and a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy...
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  • Michael Spyres (category 21st-century American male opera singers)
    Comunale, Bologna and La Monnaie, Brussels, as Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell, to Opéra National de Bordeaux for the title role in Berlioz' La damnation...
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  • performing tenor roles with a high tessitura such as Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell. Song Seong-min was born in Seoul. He was first an informatics engineer...
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    play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as Singspiel and Opéra comique. In traditional...
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    John Osborn (tenor) (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    and Arnold Melchtal in Guillaume Tell with the company. In 2007, he made his role debut as Arnold in Rossini's opera William Tell, with Antonio Pappano...
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    Garnier Palace), also known as Opéra Garnier (French: [ɔpeʁa ɡaʁnje] , Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seat opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in...
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  • Pluse August’s New Music - Katy Wright, Classical Music, August 2015 Guillaume Tell opera rape outcry is over offence to music, not women - Zoe Williams, The...
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    Nicolas Levasseur (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    Opéra in 1827 and remained there until 1853, where he created all the great basso cantante roles, notably in operas such as; Le comte Ory, Guillaume Tell...
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    Jean Noté (category 19th-century Belgian male opera singers)
    Patrick. La Terre Promise ~ Oratorio. L’Avant-Scène Opéra 148 – Esclarmonde ~ Grisélidis. L’Avant-Scène Opéra, Paris 1992, p.133-5. Taken from CHARM Discography...
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  • sewers below the Opéra house. The two board a small boat and cross a subterranean lake to his secret lair ("The Phantom of the Opera"). The Phantom explains...
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    Mécène Marié de l'Isle (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    such roles as Eléazar in La Juive, Max in Der Freischütz, Arnold in Guillaume Tell, Raoul, Fernand in La favorite, and the title role in Robert le diable...
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    referred to as the Salle de la rue Le Peletier or the Opéra Le Peletier) was the home of the Paris Opera from 1821 until the building was destroyed by fire...
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    another smaller object) off his own son's head. It is best known as William Tell's feat. The earliest known occurrence of the motif is from the 12th century...
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    Marcello Giordani (category 20th-century Italian male opera singers)
    "Amis, amis secondez ma vengeance" from Guillaume TellOpera Orchestra of New York, 2005 Finale from Guillaume Tell (Thomas Hampson, Marcello Giordani,...
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    Anne-Catherine Gillet (category 21st-century Belgian women opera singers)
    Rameau, Opéra Garnier, 2012 Micaëla in Carmen by Georges Bizet, Opéra de Marseille, 2012 Madame Tell in Guillaume Tell by André Grétry, Opéra Royal de...
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    Palais Garnier, one of the theatres of the Paris Opéra. The musicians and others associated with the Opéra-Comique have made important contributions to operatic...
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