This performance was of the French version, with some cuts to particularly the fourth act (which Pappano noted had been approved by Rossini himself). In 2010 there was an important revival of the opera, when it opened the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's season, under Antonio Pappano. In the later 20th century there were major productions in Florence (1972), Geneva (1979, 1991), La Scala (1988), Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1989), Covent Garden (1990), and then Opéra Bastille (2003) as well as at the Sportspalace in Pesaro (lasting over 5 hours, 1995). When the opera was performed at Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) in 1893, an anarchist threw two Orsini bombs in the theatre. It was revived at the Metropolitan Opera in 1923 with Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli, and there were revivals during the 1930s in Milan, Rome, Paris, Berlin and Florence. In New York, William Tell was first presented on 19 September 1831. As Hofer, or the Tell of the Tyrol, the opera was first performed at Drury Lane in London on (in English), with a production in Italian following in 1839 at Her Majesty's, and in French at Covent Garden in 1845. By contrast, in Vienna, in spite of censorship problems there, the Vienna Court Opera gave 422 performances over the years 1830 to 1907.
The first Venice production, at the Teatro La Fenice, was not until 1856.
The Teatro San Carlo produced the opera in 1833, but then did not give another production for around 50 years. In Italy, because the work glorified a revolutionary figure against authority, the opera encountered difficulties with the Italian censors, and the number of productions in Italy was limited. Political concerns have also contributed to the varying fortunes of the work. Performances have been given in both French and Italian. The opera's length, roughly four hours of music, and casting requirements, such as the high range required for the tenor part, have contributed to the difficulty of producing the work.
Guillaume Tell was first performed by the Paris Opéra at the Salle Le Peletier on 3 August 1829, but within three performances cuts were being made and after a year only three acts were performed.
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