Tamerlano - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Tamerlano
Dramma per musica in three acts (1724)
Music by Georg Friedrich Handel
Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym
Concert performance in Italian
The Central Asian conqueror Timur sought the reestablishment of the Mongolian Empire from Genghis Khan, advanced west and in 1402 inflicted a heavy defeat on the Ottoman army under Sultan Bayezid. The illiterate, known for his cruelty, who promoted science and art at the same time, fascinated the librettists of the 18th century with his ambivalence. After his success with Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Georg Friedrich Händel also turned to the emir known as Tamerlano in the Baroque period during his first London Opera Academy in 1724. As so often, Nicola Francesco Haym wrote the libretto. But his real interest was in Tamerlano's adversary Bajazet, whose death inspired the composer to one of the earliest death scenes on an opera stage. Tamerlano defeated and captured Bajazet. The conqueror also wants to force Bajazet's daughter Asteria to marry, but she loves her Greek ally Andronico. Humiliated, Bajazet poisoned himself. Only the death of the opponent brings Tamerlano to his senses, and he renounces Asteria. Since most of the characters in the baroque opera were of aristocratic origin who were not allowed to be publicly humiliated, no death scenes were normally shown. For Tamerlano, Handel broke this convention ...
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Music by Georg Friedrich Handel
Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym
Concert performance in Italian
The Central Asian conqueror Timur sought the reestablishment of the Mongolian Empire from Genghis Khan, advanced west and in 1402 inflicted a heavy defeat on the Ottoman army under Sultan Bayezid. The illiterate, known for his cruelty, who promoted science and art at the same time, fascinated the librettists of the 18th century with his ambivalence. After his success with Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Georg Friedrich Händel also turned to the emir known as Tamerlano in the Baroque period during his first London Opera Academy in 1724. As so often, Nicola Francesco Haym wrote the libretto. But his real interest was in Tamerlano's adversary Bajazet, whose death inspired the composer to one of the earliest death scenes on an opera stage. Tamerlano defeated and captured Bajazet. The conqueror also wants to force Bajazet's daughter Asteria to marry, but she loves her Greek ally Andronico. Humiliated, Bajazet poisoned himself. Only the death of the opponent brings Tamerlano to his senses, and he renounces Asteria. Since most of the characters in the baroque opera were of aristocratic origin who were not allowed to be publicly humiliated, no death scenes were normally shown. For Tamerlano, Handel broke this convention ...
Subject to changes.
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