The Alessandro Scarlatti Association, chaired by Oreste de Divitiis, inaugurates its new musical season with an exceptional ...

He’s the father of modern opera but nowhere near as celebrated as he should be. Soprano Elizabeth Watts decided it was time to change that, and embarked on a five-year quest to discover and record ...

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 ...

Golden-voiced soprano Elizabeth Watts has spent the past few years unearthing neglected arias by Alessandro Scarlatti, father of Domenico and founder of the rich Neapolitan school. With 600 cantatas ...

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 ...

Classical Italian vocal music is noted for its drama and emotion. Most famously displayed by grand operas, this level of pathos appears even in “arias”—the Italian word for solo songs. It’s printed on ...

The modern-day premiere of Alessandro Scarlatti’s “La Gloria di Primavera” (”The Glory of Spring”) that Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra delivered last fall introduced us to a ...

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, ...