Handel's Tamerlano: Theater an der Wien

Lo spettacolo

A star‐studded cast at the Theater an der Wien offers a concert version of Handel's Tamerlano, rich with conflict and complexity.

The political struggle inherent in Tamerlane's victory over the Ottomans was a very popular subject in both literature and theater at the time that Handel composed his opera. Handel's version, though, is unique in that the conflict is also reflected on a personal level. Tamerlane's unscrupulous mission to wed the daughter of Bajazet -- the captured sultan of Turkey -- fails, and the resulting scenes are among Handel's most dramatic.

Dramma per musica in three acts (1724)

Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, based Jacques Pradon's "Tamerlano, or the Death of Bajazet" (1675)

Opera in concert in Italian

Conductor: Maxim Emelyanichev
Tamerlano: Xavier Sabata
Bajazet: John Mark Ainsley
Asteria: Sophie Karthäuser
Andronico: Max Emanuel Cencič
Irene: Ruxandra Donose
Leone: Pavel Kudinov
Orchestra: Il pomo d´oro