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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scarlatti? He of keyboard sonata fame? That's actually Domenico; this recital disc collects soprano arias by his father Alessandro (1660-1725), whose star has been eclipsed by his son. Scarlatti ...

Baby presents don’t get much more extravagant than “The Glory of Spring,” the full-scale vocal and orchestral “serenata” that composer Alessandro Scarlatti whipped up to celebrate the birth in 1716 of ...

The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many ...

If musical scholars were as suspicious a breed as Shakespearean scholars, there might be a movement to prove that Domenico Scarlatti never existed, or that his best pieces were written by somebody ...