Prom 2 - Rossini: Guillaume Tell

The operatic concert performance is an odd beast. Heroes and villains rub dinner-jacketed shoulders like a police line-up after an Ascot brawl, while women in ball gowns occasionally sweep on and off (such dresses being less than practical for fisticuffs). Some manage to convey a sense of drama despite the cummerbund; others, reduced to fatally mortal proportions, rely on their voices alone. And with the orchestra excavated from its opera-house pit, the conductor fully on view, and the chorus always in oratorio-esque attendance, the message to the audience is black and white: no spectacle here, this is TMI – The Music Itself.

For those who don't know the piece (overture aside, of course) – and I'd imagine that at last night's Prom, that meant most of those attending – Rossini's Guillaume Tell a staple of the opera house; at least in part because, like the other grand operas it spawned, there's an awful lot of TMI. A good three hours' worth, in fact – and that doesn't include intervals.

Yet despite such energy-sapping length, and without much visual or dramatic stimulus to enliven the more static moments, the time flew by. The RAH is not an easy space in which to sing – balance and diction in particular are inherently problematic – but there were some first-rate vocal performances. John Osborn and Malin Byström were excellent as the star-cross'd lovers Arnold and Mathilde.

Byström's dark-hued soprano plumbed the emotional depths of 'Sombre forêt' (her Act II avowal of love) and relished the pyrotechnics of her later confrontation with its political impossibility, while always conveying an impressive sense of drama across the sea of evening dress. Osborn, ever-heroic in tone, scored the singular coup of sudden and complete audience silence: coughing fits ceased, and stoic promenaders – on their feet for nearly four hours by this point – stood still for his moving and highly polished reading of Act IV's 'Asile héréditaire', before erupting in appreciation at the end of the scene and its detonation of ringing high Cs.

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Prom 2 - Rossini: Guillaume Tell
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