Tamerlano

Overview

Handel's 1724 opera Tamerlano followed the success of his previous year's Giulio Cesare with another colourful historical costume drama. This time the setting is the court of "Timur the Tartar", who has just defeated the Turkish Sultan Bajazet at the battle of Angora. There are, naturally enough, romantic complications when both Tamerlano and his ally, the Greek Prince Andronico, fall in love with Bajazet's daughter Asteria. She, however, has plans to revenge her father's defeat. This production was directed by Jonathan Miller and staged in the intimate surroundings of the Goethe Theatre of Bad Lauchstadt as part of the 2001 Halle Handel Festival.

Directed by Jonathan Miller

Top cast

T

Trevor Pinnock

conductor

M

Monica Bacelli

Tamerlano

G

Graham Pushee

andronicus

A

Anna Bonitatibus

Irene

E

Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz

Asteria

A

Antonio Abete

Leone

Tom Randle

Bajazet

Details