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• Performed for the first time in it's original uncut version, this

four-plus hour-long production of Guillaume Tell was the

jewel in the crown of the 25-year history of the 'Rossini in

Wildbad' opera festival.

• Rossini's final, great, operatic masterpiece, based upon

the libretto by Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte

Louis Florent Bis after Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell and

Claris de Florian's Guillaume Tell, is a story of liberation, the

oppressed Swiss attaining their ideal of emancipation by

hounding the tyrannical Habsburgs out of their country.

• Although it was composed for the complex demands of the

Paris Opera, numerous dances, choruses and arias were

dropped for reasons of practicality.

• These are restored in the present recording which also

includes the stunning finale of the shorter 1831 version of

the opera, to be found on Disc Four.

• Recorded live at the Trinkhalle, Bad Wildbad, Germany

over the course of four days in July, 2013 by the combined

forces of the Camerata Bach Choir, Poznan and the Virtuosi

Brunensis, conducted by Antonino Fogliani.

• Soloists include baritone Andrew Foster-Williams as Tell,

tenor Michael Spyres as Arnold Melcthal and soprano Judith

Howarth as Mathilde.