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- As Hofer, or the Tell of the Tyrol, the opera was first performed at Drury Lane in London on 1 May 1830 (in English), with a production in Italian following in 1839 at Her Majesty's, and in French at Covent Garden in 1845.
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William Tell, verse drama in five acts by German dramatist Friedrich Schiller, published and produced in 1804 as Wilhelm Tell. During the 15th century, in the Swiss canton of Uri, the legendary hero Wilhelm Tell leads the people of the forest cantons in rebellion against tyrannical Austrian rule.
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He obtained a copy of Tschudi's chronicles and considered writing a play about Tell, but ultimately gave the idea to his friend Friedrich von Schiller, who in 1803–04 wrote the play Wilhelm Tell, first performed on 17 March 1804, in Weimar.
The first public performance of Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell was staged in Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang Goethe on 17 March 1804. [1] In the summers of 1912 to 1914 and again between 1931 and 1939, Schiller's play was staged in Interlaken.
When Rossini’s 1829 opera William Tell was first produced at La Scala in Milan, the city was still part of the Hapsburg Empire, so the setting was changed discreetly to Scotland, and Tell and ...
Wilhelm Tell, Schiller's last and greatest republican drama, was written at the end of his life, from 1803-4, when Schiller was at the peak of his artistic genius. The play was first performed in Weimar on March 17, 1804, a nd first put in print in October of that year, by Cotta at Tubingen.
W ritten in 1803 and 1804, Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell was first performed on March 17, 1804, in Weimar. Inspired by the political turn of events under Napoleon Bonaparte, Wilhelm Tell offers a more nuanced and modulated argument on resistance and revolution than Schiller’s first play, written 23 years earlier.
The first performance of the play in the city of Mannheim on the January 13, 1789, rocketed Schiller to instant fame and renown. Radical intellectuals heralded the play as marking a major change in the German theater, where issues of social justice would be addressed directly.
