William Tell has the famous Rossini overture with a galloping finale.
Gioachino Rossini composed Guillaume Tell, known in English as William Tell, as his final opera. It premiered at the Paris Opéra on 3 August 1829, with a French libretto by Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis. The story is based on the Swiss folk hero William Tell and the struggle against Habsburg rule.
The overture is organized in four contrasting sections: a quiet dawn-like passage, a storm, a pastoral section, and the celebrated finale often described as a gallop. That final section became especially famous outside the opera house and has been used in films, cartoons, advertising, and radio.
A common mix-up is to identify the overture with The Barber of Seville, Rossini’s best-known comic opera. The Barber of Seville has a different overture, while the galloping finale belongs to William Tell.