This year's 29th of February was the 232th anniversary of Gioachino Rossini's birth (1792-1868). Born in a leap year Rossini celebrated his birthday only once every four ...

The first – his grand French-language opera, Guillaume Tell (William Tell), created at the height of his career in 1829 for the Paris Opera, and still much-loved today for its famous galloping ...

The festival was launched in 1980 to revive all of Rossini’s operas and, having recently achieved that goal, may be searching for a new purpose. Here, it made an indisputable case for the ...

He’s directing the first Irish production since 1877 of Rossini’s William Tell, an opera by an Italian about a Swiss myth as turned into a play by a German (Friedrich Schiller).

At this year’s gala concert, Mr. Flórez performed a series of scenes from “Guillaume Tell,” Rossini’s final opera, complete with brilliant top notes, almost a quarter-century after his ...

Rossini’s epic telling of the William Tell fable returns to the Met stage after an absence of more than 80 years. Gerald Finley sings one of his signature roles as Tell, the revolutionary on a ...

Gioachino Rossini can number some of the world’s most beloved operas among his creations: L’Italiana en Algeri, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Otello, just to name a few. But it was the ambitious ...

About Metropolitan Opera: Guillaume Tell Rossini’s epic telling of the William Tell fable returns to the Met stage after an absence of more than 80 years, in a new production by Pierre Audi.

If staging The Tell-Tale Heart in a crypt sounds like a trick, this piece turned out to be a treat as well. And I can’t think of a better opera to become a new Halloween tradition.

“Guillaume Tell,” Rossini's opera about folk hero William Tell, had not been performed at the Met in more than 80 years before this season.

"Guillaume Tell," Rossini's opera about folk hero William Tell, had not been performed at the Met in more than 80 years before this season.

It would be easy to call the performance of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell at the Met on Saturday a nightmare. Yet the literally endless, painfully convoluted, ultimately tawdry spectacle began at noon.