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Rossini does not give us Schiller's reflections on political freedom and rebellion — instead, he shows us the freedom and bondage of the soul which can throw people back to the roots of feeling. Act One For no apparent reason, Leuthold brutally kills a soldier and flees. The guests at a large village wedding are, however, still in high spirits- more than thirty couples plan to get married on that beautiful day, they know nothing about the murder.

Ruodi is one of the bridegrooms. In joyful exhuberance he sings his future wife a song about the pleasures of marriage. Guillaume Tell is the only one present to have doubts about the situation. He sees the lack of freedom in his fatherland, Switzerland, and propagates political independence from the Habsburgs. Melcthal praises the forthcoming festivities, mentioning that Swiss values such as work, marriage and love, will also be manifest there.

His son Arnold, however, feels like an outsider. He has fought in the Habsburg army and is unhappily in love — with the Habsburg princess Mathilde of all people, whom he has saved from being killed by an avalanche.

He knows this love has no future. He therefore tries to encourage him to draw a line under that chapter in his life and fight again, for independence as a patriot on the side of the Swiss. Arnold leaves the festivities as he can no longer bear the sight of so many couples. The celebration is suddenly interrupted: Leuthold is on the run and begs the people at the wedding for protection from the soldiers who are chasing him.

He explains that he has merely taken revenge for the abduction of his daughter and killed the man responsible. The people are uncertain how to react, Ruodi does not want to help Leuthold, Guillaume does. Just in time, before the arrival of the captain of police Rodolphe and his soldiers, Guillaume and Leuthold escape. When Rodolphe demands an explanation of the situation, the wedding guests refuse to answer. Melcthal accuses the Habsburg regime of tyranny and is arrested.

For the time being the guests appear unmoved. Melchthal, who has done nothing wrong, is released and Rodolphe and the soldiers are forced to withdraw again, angry but without having achieved anything.

Production place Published in: Gotha. Modern Gallery of British Artists. Production place Published in: London England. Tell, au lac des quatres Cantons. Production place Printed in: Paris France. Production place Published in: Karlsruhe town.

Museum number Y,5. Tell, pres de Kusnacht, C. Helvetius, Patriae Lib, Primus Vindex. Production date 19thC late. Museum number ,U.

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