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Opera House Zurich - The Current Programme
Guillaume Tell - Rossini
Freely based on Schiller?s drama, the opera is about the fight for freedom in the Swiss cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden against the tyrannical rule of the Habsburgs, personified by the Landvogt Gessler, whose soldiers harass the populace. When the old man Melchthal is murdered, the Swiss, led by William Tell, swear to liberate their fatherland.
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Der Rosenkavalier - R. Strauss
Love and politics, inauspiciously and inescapably linked - that is the point of departure of most of Giuseppe Verdi's operas. In "Simon Boccanegra", probably Verdi's most sombre work, the power struggle between plebeians and patricians in the 14th century provides the backdrop for the tragic conflict...
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