Tamerlano (Tamerlane, HWV 18) is an opera in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music (1719), with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's Tamerlano together with another libretto entitled Bajazet after Nicolas Pradon's Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet.
One of Handel's major works, he composed it in the space of 20 days in July 1724, in a year in which two more great operas were composed by him: Giulio Cesare and Rodelinda. Eve Meyer has noted how the role of Bajazet was one of the first major tenor roles in opera, as well as the place of the opera in the contemporary fashion for Turkish culture (turquerie).
It was first performed at the King's Theatre, London, on 31 October 1724, around the time of the annual performance of Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane plays (4–5 November). There were 12 performances and it was repeated on 13 November 1731. The opera then received a production in Hamburg with the recitative in German and the arias in Italian. The first modern production was in Karlsruhe on 7 September 1924. Amongst recent productions, it appeared in the repertory of the Washington National Opera in 2008 and of the Los Angeles Opera in November 2009; both productions featured tenor Placido Domingo, who is also the general director of both companies.
Handel: Tamerlano, opera seria in three acts, HWV 18 | Les Talens Lyriques
Händel Opera Tamerlano, HWV18 / Riccardo Minasi Il Pomo d'Oro
TAMERLANO- PLACIDO DOMINGO- DAVID DANIELS- LIVE WASHINGTON 2008
Storia - L'Europa del XIV sec - L'avventura di Tamerlano - Repetita
Handel: "Dal crudel che m'ha tradita" from Tamerlano | Ruxandra Donose, Il Pomo d'Oro
Händel Opera Tamerlano Aria ''Figlia mia - Tu, spietato'' HWV18 by Mark Padmore
Handel Tamerlano Ouverture
Händel: The death of Bajazet (Tamerlano) - Domingo
Karina Gauvin, Haendel, Tamerlano,"S'ei non mi vuol amar"
Plácido Domingo - Figlia mia, non pianger, no (Tamerlano)
Handel: Tamerlano
A. Vivaldi: Bajazet (RV 703) - II/V Aria [Tamerlano]: Cruda sorte, avverso fato!
Tamerlano - Scena Ultima
Händel Opera Tamerlano Aria 'Vo' dar pace a un'alma altiera' HWV18 by Xavier Sabata
Handel: Tamerlano, opera seria in three acts, HWV 18 | Les Talens Lyriques
Händel Opera Tamerlano, HWV18 / Riccardo Minasi Il Pomo d'Oro
TAMERLANO- PLACIDO DOMINGO- DAVID DANIELS- LIVE WASHINGTON 2008
Storia - L'Europa del XIV sec - L'avventura di Tamerlano - Repetita
Handel: "Dal crudel che m'ha tradita" from Tamerlano | Ruxandra Donose, Il Pomo d'Oro
Händel Opera Tamerlano Aria ''Figlia mia - Tu, spietato'' HWV18 by Mark Padmore
Handel Tamerlano Ouverture
Händel: The death of Bajazet (Tamerlano) - Domingo
Karina Gauvin, Haendel, Tamerlano,"S'ei non mi vuol amar"
Plácido Domingo - Figlia mia, non pianger, no (Tamerlano)
Handel: Tamerlano
A. Vivaldi: Bajazet (RV 703) - II/V Aria [Tamerlano]: Cruda sorte, avverso fato!
Tamerlano - Scena Ultima
Händel Opera Tamerlano Aria 'Vo' dar pace a un'alma altiera' HWV18 by Xavier Sabata
Nicholas Spanos:"a dispetto" from Händel's "Tamerlano"
Vuo dar pace - Tamerlano
Re: Handel: Tamerlano, HWV18 "A Dispetto.." - Derek Lee Ragin
Ciel E Terra Armi Di Sdegno - Tamerlano - Thomas Randle Haendel
Handel Tamerlano Aria 2
Handel: "Cor di padre" from Tamerlano | Karina Gauvin, Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi
Janet Baker, Haendel, Tamerlano, duo "Vivo in te, mio caro bene" (Asteria/Andronico)
CONCERT TAMERLANO AMB BEJUN MEHTA (2010-11).
Finale of Tamerlano - Nesi/Beaumont/Fox/Cencic/Priante LIVE - Handel