Guillaume Tell

Guillaume Tell is an opera in four acts with a score by Giaocchino Rossini and a libretto by Hippolyte Bis and Victor Jouy (see eighteenth-century volume for Jouy). It had its world premiere at the opera house in the rue Le Peletier on 3 August 1829 and became quite popular despite the charge of mediocrity that some critics leveled at the librettists’ adaptation of Friedrich Schiller ’s play to the operatic stage. It was billed at the Park Theatre in New York as early as 16 June 1845 and at the…