Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Dandadan‘s 11th episode, titled “First Love,” included many fun moments, like Jiji’s horrific ...

This week, learn the full story behind Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell" Overture. Plus, we'll hear two towering musical expressions of nature with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 and Richard ...

Most audiences have, at least tangentially, come into contact with the legend, play, or overture that inspires the new historical epic, William Tell. Set in the early 1300s in Switzerland, William ...

The name William Tell will probably bring one of two things to mind: the famous opera overture that got recontextualized by The Lone Ranger and Mickey Mouse, and the image of a man shooting an apple ...

I have to confess I don’t know much about William Tell, the legendary 14th century huntsman who we were told as school children took his bow and arrow and heroically shot an apple off the top of his ...

You probably remember one thing about the Swiss folk hero William Tell: He used a bow and arrow to shoot an apple off the head of his son. But did you know that he did so on the orders of a cruel ...

Ah, yes, even after all these years, Daffy Duck is still insanely jealous of anyone who receives enthusiastic applause while he receives none! "Porky and Daffy in The William Tell Overture" is ...

Writer-director Nick Hamm based William Tell on Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 drama, itself the source of Rossini’s opera. After a sluggish opening, in which Tell (Claes Bang), an ex-Crusader turned ...

Somehow, quasi-historical action-dramas like William Tell (now streaming on Hulu) are still getting made, fairly lavish and elaborate Euro epics that aren’t cheap to make, a la recent productions of ...