Handel's Tamerlano (2015)

• 80%
• 2015
• Drama
• Music
• Pierre Audi
• Christophe Dumaux
• Jeremy Ovenden
• Sophie Karthäuser

In Tamerlano, Handel defied rules both written and tacit—offering a main role to a mature tenor at a time when the castrato voice dominated; and not shying away from shocking scenes that other composers approached hesitantly, like suicide. Pierre Audi's elegant, minimalist staging allows an all-star cast of singers to highlight the work's many dramatic elements, proving that Baroque opera can still move and thrill us as it did 300 years ago!