Tamerlano
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.
Director: Jonathan Miller
Cast
Trevor Pinnock
conductor
Monica Bacelli
Tamerlano
Graham Pushee
andronicus
Anna Bonitatibus
Irene
Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz
Asteria
Antonio Abete
Leone
Tom Randle
Bajazet
