It took 300 years, we were told, but Alessandro Scarlatti’s “La Gloria di Primavera” finally arrived in Southern California (Tuesday night at Segerstrom Concert Hall), courtesy of the Bay Area-based ...

“Opera proibita” means forbidden opera. The Catholic Church essentially banned opera during the first decade of the 18th Century in Rome, leading to the rise of the Italian oratorio. As a result, ...

Titled “300 Alessandro Scarlatti,” the special project celebrates in Naples, on the 300th anniversary of his death, the genius of the great musician. The event, consisting of concerts, meetings, ...

Si sa, Alessandro Scarlatti nacque a Palermo nel 1660. Ma dopo gli esordi romani è a Napoli che il suo genio fiorì fino ad essere considerato uno dei padri nobili della grande scuola del Settecento.

Armonico Consort continues to rehabilitate the reputation of overlooked Scarlatti family member Francesco in this uneven but dramatic choral piece The Scarlatti family was a major force in ...

Lucie Skeaping looks at the life of the Sicilian born composer, and some of the music he composed for oratorios during the early part of the 18th century. The Vatican had placed a ban on opera and ...

On Alessandro Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio at the Paris Opéra. Alessandro Scarlatti was one of the great figures of Baroque opera, but the Scarlatti name is better known because of his son Domenico’s ...

Alessandro Scarlatti twice lived in Rome, first working for the self-exiled Swedish Queen Christina, and again at the end of his life, composing some of his best music. Show more Sicilian-born ...