FULL TAMERLANO ovvero LA MORTE DI BAJAZET Ravenna 2023 Gianluca Margheri, Filippo Mineccia, Delphine Galou

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Bajazet aka Il Tamerlano   
• Composer: Vivaldi Antonio  
• Libretto: Agostino Piovene    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna, Italy  
• Recorded: January 15, 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Gianluca Margheri, Filippo Mineccia, Delphine Galou, Marie Lys, Federico Fiorio, Giuseppina Bridelli
• Conductor: Ottavio Dantone  
• Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina  
• Ballet: DaCru Dance Company  
• Stage Director: Stefano Monti  
• Stage Designer: Stefano Monti  
• Costume Designer: Stefano Monti  
• Lighting Designer: Eva Bruno  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: OperaStreaming  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, itsubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The Tamerlano, or the death of Bajazet was staged during the Carnival season of 1735. Bajazet, powerful sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is defeated by Tamerlano, a Mongolian leader, and commits suicide: these are historical characters, symbols of greatness and of the decline of the empire with which the Serenissima had had to deal with throughout its history. The ‘tragedy for music’ composed by Vivaldi (performed here in the critical edition reconstructed by Bernardo Ticci) is a pasticcio, i.e. a work in which not only pre-existing pages by the author but also by other composers converged: at the time a consolidated practice, which does not detract from the irresistible incisiveness of Vivaldi’s writ