‘William Tell’ booed for frontal nude scene
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GIOACHINO Rossini’s opera “Guillaume Tell” (William Tell) about the Swiss patriot who shoots an arrow that splits an apple atop his son’s head is famed for its overture with the galloping horse theme used in “The Lone Ranger” television series.
Now it will go down in the annals of London’s Covent Garden for a new production that was roundly booed by an opening night audience for a scene of full frontal nudity that Rossini could never have imagined when he wrote the work that had its premiere in 1829.
There was plenty of cheering for the singers and musicians as well, but the audience reaction to the nudity was so strong in Britain’s usually decorous premiere opera venue that Kasper Holten, the ROH’s director of opera, issued a statement afterwards expressing sorrow for any distress caused.
In the scene, an actress is manhandled during a banquet by a group of officers in the Austrian army occupying Switzerland. The officers force champagne down the woman’s throat, fondle her with a gun, strip her and force her to lie on top of the banquet table.
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