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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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.

Robert Butts was practically shaking after he touched it. The New Jersey musician's hands were among the few to have turned the pages since composer Alessandro Scarlatti penned them himself more than ...

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 ...