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 ...

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, ...

Saturday 27th June 2026 7.30 pm St Mary’s Parish Church, Woburn Take three great composers, stir in outstanding singers and ...

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 ...

Il primo omicidio (The First Murder) is an oratorio composed by Alessandro Scarlatti to a libretto by Cardinal Ottoboni for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...