william tell

     

Hero whose son is seen here on a Swiss postage stamp

Trivia about william tell

  • The title character of this opera addresses his son in the aria "Sois immobile" ("hold yourself still")
  • In Altdorf, Switzerland a statue marks the spot where he shot an apple off his son's head
  • In a Rossini opera this Swiss patriot is forced to shoot an apple placed on his son Jemmy's head
  • Legend says Austrian autocrat Gessler got the point from this Swiss archer around 1300
  • Rossini:"It'll Aim Well"
  • Altdorf, Switzerland boasts a statue of this archer with his son, the "apple" of his eye
  • Friedrich Von Schiller, of "Ode To Joy" fame, is famous for an 1804 tale about this archer
  • Swiss archer who broke a few child welfare laws around 1307
  • Schiller's 1804 play about this hero is presented outdoors every summer in Interlaken, Switzerland
  • An apple & a crossbow play important roles in this 1804 Schiller tale
  • 14th century hero in the title of the following
  • Gessler was the despotic governor of Uri, a Swiss canton, until this archer bested him
  • Schiller's play about this man has the line "By Heavens! The apple's cleft right through the core"
  • Set in 1307, this 4-act opera has long been the apple of my eye
  • He defied Austrian authority & was forced at 80 paces to shoot an apple off his son's head
  • He shot an arrow into the air; it hit a guy named Gessler, we know where
  • Rudolph is the commander of Gessler's archers in this opera
  • Your little tykes will want some apples after visiting the Burglen museum devoted to him
  • Part of this Rossini opera takes place on the shores of Lake Lucerne
  • After writing this 1829 opera, Rossini wrote less than a half dozen more works the last 39 years of his life
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew blows an alphorn in front of a Tyrolean chalet.) Appropriately, an alphorn call is imitated in the overture to this 1829 Rossini opera
  • Jemmy, a Swiss boy used as a target stand
  • In an opera, he was fortunate--& skilled--enough to shoot an arrow into an apple (& later, into the evil Gessler)
  • If he shoots an apple off my head, I'll tell him he doesn't have the legs for lederhosen! He thinks he's...
  • Act 1 of this Rossini opera takes place on the shores of Lake Lucerne