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 ...

(Il) Prigioniero fortunato, Movements: Sinfonia Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor (Pietro) Alessandro (Gaspare) Scarlatti, Composer Concerto de' Cavalieri (12) Sinfonie di concerto grosso, Movements: No 3 ...

Throughout his tenure as music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan has always opened the season with something big — often one of Handel’s large-scale operas or oratorios.

For its fourth season of adventuresome journeys into the distant past, Opera Antica has uncovered Alessandro Scarlatti’s La Caduta de’ Decemviri (“The Fall of the Tyrants”). Premiered in 1697 in ...

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Whether on silver screen or in symphony hall, it can be a curse to be type cast. So consummately did Bach play the part of a composer of learned fugues that his lighter side is too often ignored. The ...