Act 5 opens at daybreak in a public square near Altorf, where Walter Furst ineffectually tries to get a group led by Ruodi to stop tearing down a building.  
Act 5 opens at daybreak in a public square near Altorf, where Walter Furst ineffectually tries to get a group led by Ruodi to stop tearing down a building.  The title character of this work is freed from his bonds so that he can help navigate a ship during a storm, but he steers close to the shore and jumps to his freedom.  In the other storyline, Johannes Parricida's assassination of the emperor helps the democratic parliament on the R?tli achieve success in its rebellion against the invading nation.  After the protagonist of this work, subtitled "A New Year's Gift to the World," declines to salute an Austrian hat, he is arrested and Gessler forces him to shoot at an object placed on his son's head.  FTP, name this play which was first performed at Weimar in 1804, a work by Friedrich Schiller about a Swiss patriot.
Act 5 opens at daybreak in a public square near Altorf, where Walter Furst ineffectually tries to get a group led by Ruodi to stop tearing down a building.  
William Tell (or: Wilhelm Tell)