It was the gratuitous rape of a young woman by officers answerable to their Austrian Gauleiter during the Act 3 Pas de soldats of Damiano Michieletto’s Covent Garden staging of Rossini’s Guillaume ...

The latter was said to be one of his proudest creations. After completing “William Tell” at the age of 37, Rossini never wrote another opera. During the final years of his life in France ...

The 'William Tell Overture' is one of the best-known pieces of music there is - with or without the Lone Ranger. It opens a rather less famous opera by Rossini, which in turn was based on a play ...