The story is about the fate of Bajazet (known as Bayezid I) after being captured by Tamerlane (Timur Lenk).

In garden of occupied capital of Bursa, where Tamerlane resides following the defeat of the Turks.

Vivaldi himself composed the arias for the good characters (Bajazet, Asteria and Idaspe) and mostly used existing arias from other composers for the villains (Tamerlano, Irene, Andronico) in this opera.

Fabio Biondi conducts Europa Galante in Brussels for this recording.

Before this release, excerpts from this opera had been performed by other singers such as Cecilia Bartoli.

[5] A recording of the complete opera was released in 2020 on Naïve Classiques, featuring Bruno Taddia as Bajazet and Filippo Mineccia as Tamerlano.