03/18/17 – Guillaume Tell – 1pm

Metropolitan Opera

Guillaume Tell
Composed by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis

• sung in French
• ESTIMATED RUN TIME 4 HRS 34 MINS
• front page photo credit: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera

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. Gerald Finley sings one of his signature roles as Tell, the revolutionary on a quest for freedom. Marina Rebeka is Mathilde and Bryan Hymel is her suitor, Arnold. Fabio Luisi conducts Rossini’s final, crowning operatic achievement.