Tamerlan

Tamerlan was billed as an opera in four acts with music by Winter and a libretto by Morel de Chédeville . An adaptation of the tragedy L’Orphelin de la Chine, the opera had as little success as Voltaire’s composition, although its first representation on 14 September 1802 returned the unusually large sum of 9,246 francs, 99 centimes to the box office. It is not to be confused with Reichardt’s work by the same title that was produced at Koenigstadt in 1799. The opera begins inside a mosque in…