Staging the week's companion piece, La traviata, must have seemed a relatively simple task for the company, by comparison with the demands made by this grand work. At the time, the familiar melodies are likely to have been from the Overture, especially the final galop (The Lone Ranger had been a fixture on TV screens in the recent past). Andy Stewart had also made a great success with his record of a song called 'The Scottish Soldier', the melody of which would be found in the William Tell ballet music, if it was performed.
During his extensive professional career, John Robertson sang dozens of performances of Almaviva and Ramiro for Scottish Opera and Opera for All - very different from the rather more heroic role of Arnold.
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