What nationality was the fictional William Tell
William Tell "a new William Tell" by Rolf Hochhuth), or the subversive nature of the play. Hitler is reported to have exclaimed at a banquet in 1942: "Why did Schiller have to immortalize that Swiss sniper!" Charlie Chaplin parodies William Tell in his famous 1928 silent movie "The Circus." Salvador Dalí painted "The Old Age of William Tell" and "William Tell and Gradiva" in 1931, and "The Enigma of William Tell" in 1933. Spanish playwright Alfonso Sastre re-worked the legend in 1955 in his "Guillermo Tell tiene los ojos tristes" (William Tell has sad eyes); it was not performed until the Franco
William Tell 18th century, the French and American revolutions, in particular. Schiller's play was performed at Interlaken (the "Tellspiele") in the summers of 1912 to 1914, 1931 to 1939 and every year since 1947. In 2004 it was first performed in Altdorf itself. Gioachino Rossini used Schiller's play as the basis for his 1829 opera "William Tell." The "William Tell Overture" is one of his best-known and most frequently imitated pieces of music; in the 20th century, the "coda" of the "Overture" became the theme for the radio, television, and motion picture incarnations of The Lone Ranger, a fictional American frontier hero.