CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN CATALAN AND SPANISH
Family Opera
Recommended audience age for family performances: 8 years and upwards
Performance running time: 1h
Actors, singers and musicians’ number: 9
Technicians’ number: 1
Premiere: 04/03/2012 – Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Catalonia
A troupe of comedians and musicians arrive in town and start making havoc. They are a group of artists that travel from town to town telling the legend of William Tell.
They set up the stage and introduce the characters they will play: William Tell, his wife Eduvigis, his son Jemmy, his companion Leutold, old Melcthal and evil Gessler with his entourage of Austrian soldiers.
Helped by objects, puppets and audiovisuals they will tell you how the Austrians destroyed the Swiss little village were William Tell lived, and how he confront them, of his extraordinary aim that saved his son’s life, of how he was caught prisoner and of how he regained freedom and started the uprising of the Swiss people against the Austrians.
In the purest La Baldufa style, the fast action, the farce, the humour and a refined aesthetic will be the backbone of a fresh and fun show that will surely bring the universe of Rossini and the opera closer to the family.