Rossini's WILLIAM TELL - Wichita Grand Opera - COMPLETE
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- Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell"
Wichita Grand Opera
February 22, 2014
Executive Producer: Parvan Bakardiev
Production Concept and Design: Margaret Ann Pent
Conductor: Nayden Todorov
Director: Chuck Hudson
CAST:
WILLIAM TELL - Lucas Meachem
HEDWIG - Suzanne Hendrix
JEMMY - Alyssa Toepfer
MATILDA - Zvetelina Vassileva
ARNOLD - Michael Spyres
MELCTHAL - William Powers
GESLER - Diego Baner
WALTER FURST - Nicholas Masters
RUODI - Chris Trapani
LEUTHOLD - Michael Nansel
RUDOLPHE - Patrick Greene
Set Designer: Stefan Pavlov
Lighting Designer: Tyler Lessin - Hudba
What a satisfying performance of an epic classic that most major opera companies don't dare attempt! Wichita Opera put together an excellent cast, vocally and visually up to these demanding roles and a dedicated ensemble of chorus and dancers and a mise en scene to back them up. Rossini honorably served! Bravi tutti!
Fascinant, magnifique, prodigieux chef-d'oeuvre! Merci du fond du coeur!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Un bel finale, che onora questo cast
The orchestra and soloists are absolutely amazing! Michael Spyres in my favorite tenor. How I would love to study voice with him! Hopefully if he comes to Vienna when I'm there, I can schedule and audition with him 😊
Complimenti di cuore al regista voto 110 e lode x regia scene e costumi e bravi anche gli attori-:cantanti interpreti ❤❤❤❤
Hats off to a wonderful production.
Surprisingly good for an opera company in Kansas. We don't have great opera singer masters with us today, so this production is on par with today's opera quality. Lucas Meacham sung the role well. Excellent voice and he handled the songs with the wide range very well. The final solo number by Meacham was accurate and powerful and supported by a great cast- Four stars!!!
For a small opera company, very good indeed.
Stellar cast too!
I love the overture.
Piękne, brawo artystom, podobało mi się, a najbardziej mocne wykonanie arii końcowej. Bóg Zapłać!!!
I didn’t know this opera was french. Wow !
This opera is italian , only the language is french .
Rossini was indeed Italian, but when he wrote this Opera he was working in France. Nonetheless, Rossini wrote an Italian translation, too, whose words are practically identical to the French version.
@@1897_lmb_ But in italian it doesn't work so well as in french.
@@giorgiovendetti7632 It's also the least Italian of his operas. He genuinely tried to step away from his old style and into something new and much more French with Tell. This was about as far as he could stretch his talent.
@@b13ne Exactly. I don't enjoy the Italian version at all.
Great production. Thanks for posting.
Spettacolare regia scene e costumi complimenti al regista ❤❤❤❤
Merci du partage.
Υπέροχη όπερα του Ροσσίνι αριστούργημα γορελεμος Τέλλος!!!
A magnificent opera with a most beautiful and emotional ending. Oh! when will people learn to wait until the music has finished before applauding
Waiting before applauding is rather new. People would have been applauding and talking all throughout the performance, particularly in grand opera - it was an all-day affair. Food and drink served throughout, multiple side shows and other performances, hecklers and all. The last bits of music were always written with the mind that people would have been cheering and applauding over it. It wasn't until Wagner that he demanded silence for reflection.
it's only in America !!
Simple but excellent production!!! The moving final scene is beautifully rendered. I wish they would post their FREISCHUTZ from several seasons ago!!
Ein gutes video
Brilliant production and performance. As someone else says here much better than some European ones.
Bravi!!!
Traveled from Oregon to Wichita to see this performance. Spyres and Meacham were great. Chorus was excellent.
I'm jealous!
Great bass doing Gesler
Υπέροχη η όπερα του Rossini γορελεμος Τέλλος
Holy crap! A "complete" Guillaume Tell in 2 and a half hours??? Jeez...that's like half of the opera is missing. And yet...still a fairly decent production! Stage production is excellent,the singers are surprisingly good,only the weird score,and the horrible cuts takes a bit of toll. But not bad at all.
00:24:09
ARNOLD
à part
Ah! Mathilde, idole de mon âme!
Il faut donc vaincre ma flamme?
GUILLAUME
observant Arnold
Je saurai lire dans son cœur.
ARNOLD
O ma patrie,
Mon cœur te sacrifie
Et mon amour et mon bonheur!
From March point :) thank you
quite a surprise for me - this production is far better than those of Pesaro and etc
finally they use the scenery accordinig to the time - good voices too
They have really made many cuts, to reduce the length of the opera - I've just noticed - in Arnold's intervention he sings the aria "Asile Héreditaire", then three rallies to fight: the first one they have skipped: "Des longtemps Guillaume et mon père - ont prévu l'heure des combats - sur le rocher - au fond du châlet solitaire - courrez, armez vos armes" --- then the second: "Plus de larmes stériles..." and the third, the vibrant Amis, Amis, secondez....
the 2nd and the 3rd has been included. Anyway, a great production. Regards from Lima, Peru Feb 3, 2018
That's right, but it is very difficult, even impossible, to give Guillaume Tell in the complete version. It's too much long. I saw many times in France (I am French), and I never saw the complete version : the opera is already given with many cuts. On the other hand, le role of Arnold is very difficult to sing, and it's too much tiring for the tenor to sing the complete role. Excuse for my bad english.
@@voltape Also the outstanding 1 act finale is heavily cut, reduced to a One minute thing, a real pity.
You came here for 7:23
+Pedro Henrique Araujo Wrong! I came to watch Lucas Meachem, who is a fantastic baritone with an international career.
Wrong and NO one actually knows why this music was written thusly. Horses running through the wild west - ah, no.
Thanks. lol
No, it wasn't. If it was, I wouldn't look up for the opera, since the final is the first thing that pops up when you search "William Tell"
The Lone Ranger rides again!
+Clive .L shhh, I'm hunting wabbits
Recommended only for those who,venever heard the opera before and who would like to familiarize themselves with the work.
57:24 - "Ma presence pour vous..." (Arnold, Mathilde)
2:25:00 finale: Tutto cangia, il ciel s'abbella / Tout change et grandit en ces lieux
what are the time markers for the scenes?
This is only half of the opera... Should have gone full Parsifal on it instead of cutting it down! Wagnerian length is nothing to be ashamed of!
Someone please have mercy and add subtitles to this.
what for ??
Gustave Portelance Most people aren't Italian (or French, got used to Italian opera)
But its a FRENCH opera and its sung in French!!! Moi je comprends tout... You may find a libretto on the Net or a music store if you so desire., or the story of it right here on Google. Bon dimanche camarade.
Gustave Portelance Do you really think everyone speaks French?
Oui ! most literate people do
Eine gute einspielung der opermit guten solisten
07:23 서곡
RE : CHILD PLAY
bill goldberg vs randy orton
SUNY Maritime College
Rossini's WILLIAM TELL - Wichita Grand Opera - COMPLETE
2:09 - - It is French as it should be - the cabaletta of Arnold "Amis, Amis, secondez ma vengeance, si notre chef est dans le fer / c'est à nous qu'appartient sa défense / d'Aldorf les chemins son ouverts! Suivez-moi, Suivez-moi, d'un monstre perfide, trompons l'espérance homicide, arrachons GUIllaume a ses coups... arrachons GUIllaume a ses coups". the GUI of Guillaume. both times, has to be sung in High C.
Notre chef est dans les fers, cela signifie en prison, le livret est tiré de Schiller, le poète allemand. Il existe une 2 eme version postérieure en Italien.
L' articulation de Spyres est excellente, les syllabes correctement accentuées ce qui n' est pas le cas des autres chanteurs.
Spyres est une spécialiste de l'opéra français et il chante souvent en France. Les autres, en effet, font ce qu'ils peuvent avec le français que, visiblement, ils ne comprennent pas.
hi ho silver away
iii EXCELENTE, GENIAL la OPERA de G. Rossini !!! lastima, en la Overtura, los camarografos un desastre...no enfocan a los miembros de la Gran Orquesta, sino todo el tiempo lo hacen al director... muy MAL !! por lo demas; disfrutamos MUY BIEN... gracias.
"Complete"
Does anyone know if there's any downloads for the full opera of this (Free) somewhere?
I've tried looking but i've only found one in really bad quality.
Thanks.
Johan estuvo aquí :v
RE : CHILD PLAY
bill goldberg vs randy orton
SUNY Maritime College
good opera but i need to understand the words because i need to write an essay in school
WirelessBrain1O It' s pretty good but you have to read Schiller in German to see what's going on.
The history of Helvetic conféderation started in Middle Age with Uri, Untervald in 1291 and fighted against Austrian domination.
The French of Spyres is perfect.In Carmen he was amazing.
Your best operatic singer with L. Browlee, M. Polenzani , E Cutler and St.Costello.
7:24 Thank Me Later.
If you have a cough, don't go to the opera.
Many people wait to have a cough for going to the opera : the are very lucky to let everybody have the pleasure to hear their coughing fits.
@@henri53100😂😂
I don't think people today think of Swiss soldiers when they hear the overture or the name William Tell. Sorry this opera has nothing to do with Cowboys or Indians. That's the Hollywood version.
I really like this overture! I was happy to create my sand animation with it! It's an unforgettable experience to draw in the middle of the orchestra! There is my sand animation to the Rossini overture: czcams.com/video/c6ZNXkG9TPs/video.html
All opera houses are the same. People coughing in the background. Chees, eat a barrel of pills for once and THEN go to opera.
You're right! In every continent, it seems.
C'est l'un de mes opéras préférés, bravo à Monsieur Rossini qui apparament, maîtrise à la perfection la langue de Molière. En revanche, comme je viens de commencer à regarder pour la première fois ce chef d'oeuvre, j'ai été extremement déçu de l'horrible orchestration de l'ouverture, le chef d'orchestre devrait revoir sa copie, elle n'est pas jouée avec émotion. Au début, le violoncelle joue trop rapidement, jouez avec tristesse ! Ce passage montre l'occupation des Autrichiens sur les Suisses, penez votre temps !! Et je ne parle même pas du final, qui devrait être un grand final triomphale et d'espérance pour le peuple Suisse. Toujous la même chose pour le mouvement pastoral, la flûte et le cor anglais jouent trop rapidement ! Encore une fois, PRENEZ VOTRE TEMPS !!!!!!! Jouez le avec tranquilité, on est à la campagne à ce moment de l'ouverture.
Bref, franchement monsieur Todorov, je ne vous félicite pas. (Et puis entre nous, il y des biens meilleures chefs d'orchestre que vous, et de loin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
Complete? This is like...slightly more than half the opera. The cuts are brutal and disgusting. At least, don't advertise it as complete. Nice that they try something so demanding, but this a hopelessly provincial performance. I like Spyres quite a lot and wonder what he is doing is Wichita....That's not the place for a rising major tenor.
But at Wichita all the public at the end of opera had serioius problems of hearing??? all the singers are cying a lot..
This production of Wichita GO is very better than these of Faust, the opera by Charles Gounod. I saw it on You Tube and it is completely ridicoulous : the voices are horrible, the set too, the curtain makes a noise each time it is opened or closed. The singer who sings Faust loses his bart and his moustache before Mephistopheles makes him young......Very laughing production indeed ! But this Guillaume Tell is very good.
Not to get into a political discussion here but I am wondering who would be more deserving of the death penalty, Giaocchino Rossini or Timothy Mcveigh? Timothy McVeigh for only doing the one thing wrong that HE did wrong or Rossini for doing the three things wrong that HE did wrong;
1). Having the music of the end of the overture part of the overture only and not using it in the finale of the opera.
2). Originally the music from the finale of the William Tell Overture was intended to be sung at the end of the Second Act (in addition to at the end of the overture) but later Rossini removed it so it's only appearance is in the overture.
3. If he didn't want to use the finale of the overture for the last melody in the opera, he should have at least used a piece that was as rollicking as the end of the overture.
Rossini did put together a later version of G.T. much shortened and in which the quick step from the overture is incorporated into the finale ultimo. It's been performed as an add-on to a recent recording, and while it's sort of fun, he was clearly right in the first place. For one thing, the finale to this opera is arguably the grandest and most noble ending to any opera, I guess, along with that to Fidelio. Nothing expresses man's longing for freedom better in music.
Jesus, the Oklahoma City bombing killed children who did nothing but attend a daycare in the building. I saw the rubble and brought water to the first responders who were covered in ashes. Keep your shock value bullshit to yourself.
Ad placement spoiled it completely!!! 5 ads for 2 1/2 hours might be reasonable if they hadn't been placed willy nilly. I left after the first one, but I expect the other 4 were just as carelessly placed. Sayonara!!
ese tenor no tiene ni idea de la primera aria un desastre es esto, mal la overtura primera cancion y para que seguir, mejor veo otra version
15:07 - зачем пригласили студента ? Он поет ужасно.Он не умеет петь.
The voice of michael is too small for this role
I think you are very severe. To sing Guillaume Tell, il's necessary to have a very high voice, and Michael has it. I heard him in Paris three weeks ago, in an Gounod's unknown opera, La Nonne sanglante, and he was excellent. In Guillaume Tell, he is infinitely better than Marcelo Giordano I heard about fifteen years ago in Opera-BAstille : this one had many problemw with the high notes. Michael Spyres has a very high voice et he has no problem with the high notes. I think this production of Wichita GO is very honorable : the set is classic, but of good taste, ans the singer are good. Excuse for my bad english.
Rossini wrote Arnoldo with a dramatic, baritonal tenor in mind. He wrote the role for Andrea Nozzari, who was the famous baritenor of Rossini's time, and his favourite tenor. However, the role was hijacked by Gilbert Louis Duprez (any tenor worth his salt will know this name) and his 'Do di Petto' which drove the crowd into a frenzy. Never before had an interpretation been this dramatic, this raw, this powerful and this loud.
Today, due to the high lying nature of the role, it is undertaken by light tenorinos and while they can sing the music, they fail by and large to provide the dramatic intensity because the music is too dramatic. The definitive version is definitely Mario Filippeschi's, who had the ringing heroic voice along with the easy top needed for this role. Michael Spyres' baritenor is a great fit for this role. This is not a role for tenorinos like Florez. This role requires a meaty voice, capable of easy high Cs and C#s.
Can't stand with this language version!
The tenor singing Rodolphe is quite unbearable, an ugly nasal voice and no vocal authority for the character he's portraying.
what a pile of shite
who watches this pretentious shit?
+Colin Mcdougal I watch this. And that's what makes me so much better than you!
I think you need to go outside and give yourself a good talking to you've clearly got a tile missing please go and get it sorted out before they take you away
+Colin Mcdougal That's all you got?? Not much of an erudite comeback. Or even witty. You're just a low-class loser. Get over it. People watch opera because they've opened their minds to the arts. What have you opened yourself up to? NO, please don't answer that!!! It's probably long and thick.
ooh look at me I watch opera I'm much better than you you like one direction and that's common I love watching my opera even though it's ghastly what a tit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In francese perde molto.