The name William Tell will probably bring one of two things to mind: the famous opera overture that got recontextualized by The Lone Ranger and Mickey Mouse, and the image of a man shooting an apple ...

You'd know it if you heard it: the spirited, rousing overture to Gioachino Rossini's final opera, "William Tell." It served as the theme music for "The Lone Ranger," and it appears so frequently in ...

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 ...

You probably remember one thing about the Swiss folk hero William Tell: He used a bow and arrow to shoot an apple off the head of his son. But did you know that he did so on the orders of a cruel ...