Guillaume Tell in Munich has no heroes

By Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 20 January 2015

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Reviewed at Nationaltheater, Munich on 18 January 2015

Rossini, Guillaume Tell (William Tell)

Bavarian State Opera

Dan Ettinger, Conductor

Antú Romero Nunes, Director

Annabelle Witt, Costume Designer

Florian Lösche, Set Designer

Michael Volle, Guillaume Tell

Evgeniya Sotnikova, Jemmy

Krassimira Stoyanova, Mathilde

Jennifer Johnston, Hedwige

Yosep Kang, Arnold Melchthal

Kevin Conners, Rodolphe

Enea Scala, Ruodi

Peter Lobert, Melchthal senior

Günther Groissböck, Gesler

Christian Rieger, Leuthold

Goran Jurić, Walter Furst

Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

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Ilana Walder-Biesanz

Ilana Walder-Biesanz is a product manager for Yahoo, a theatre and opera critic, and a classically trained mezzo-soprano. She explored theater and opera stagings as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. She currently writes for Bachtrack, San Francisco Classical Voice, and Stark Insider. Twitter: @ilana_wb.

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