An awkwardly staged Guillaume Tell at the Met

By Edward Sava-Segal, 23 October 2016

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 21 October 2016

Rossini, Guillaume Tell (William Tell)

Metropolitan Opera

Fabio Luisi, Conductor

Pierre Audi, Director

George Tsypin, Set Designer

Andrea Schmidt-Futterer, Costume Designer

Gerald Finley, Guillaume Tell

Marina Rebeka, Mathilde

Bryan Hymel, Arnold Melchthal

John Relyea, Gesler

Maria Zifchak, Hedwige

Janai Brugger, Jemmy

Marco Spotti, Walter Furst

Kwangchul Youn, Melchthal senior

Sean Panikkar, Rodolphe

Michele Angelini, Ruodi

The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.

Musically outstanding, but an awkwardly staged Guillaume Tell at the Met