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Episode Notes
Join Paul Herriott for Gioachino Rossini's masterpiece Guillaume Tell from the Vienna State Opera.
In his last and 40th music theatre piece, Gioachino Rossini, the greatest composer of his day, gave the world another operatic hit. Guillaume Tell, based on a play by Schiller, uses the imposing and extravagant resources of French Grand opera to retell the legend of the Swiss liberation hero. For this masterpiece, Bertrand de Billy conducts the Vienna State Opera Orchestra featuring a formidable cast led by baritone Roberto Frontali.