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Wednesday, 18 July, 2012
For the first time, William Tell...in a musical!
William Tell is undoubtedly the biggest figure in Swiss folklore as the man who stood up for his beliefs in the face of oppression. The story goes that William Tell refused to bow to a hat placed on a pole in the village of Altdorf by Austrian invaders. As punishment, he had to shoot an apple off his son’s head—luckily, he was an expert with a crossbow. He later killed the man who tried to make him bow. The story is retold every year over the summer in plays in Interlaken and Altdorf, but from today in Walenstadt in the canton of St Gallen, a new production, Tell—The Musical, starts. WRS’s Jo Fahy spoke to Elizabeth Walke from the William Tell museum in Altdorf who advised the musical’s project leader, Marco Wyss, about the legend:
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