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| Composer | Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759) |
| Period | Baroque |
| Librettist | Nicola Francesco Haym |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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A character study in singing: Handel’s Tamerlano at ETO
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A fine cast breathes life into the story of the captured Ottoman Sultan Bajazet and his Mongol conqueror.
Tension accumulates in Handel’s Tamerlano at The Grange Festival
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Some exceptional singing intermittently enlivens Daniel Slater's production which, dramatically and emotionally, takes time to ignite.
Domingo returns to La Scala in Tamerlano
Director Davide Livermore updates the plot to the period of the Russian Revolution, October 1917, a far echo of that turning point in 1403 when the Ottoman sultan Bajazet was defeated by the Tartar Timburlaine.
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Bachtrack top ten: Handel operas
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