The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Volume IX: La Statira (Harvard Publications in Music)
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Review “For the study of the history of music, the most important event of the 1970s has been the start of a critical edition of Alessandro Scarlatti’s operas, under the direction of Donald Jay Grout.”―Charles Rosen, New York Review of Books“[The edition is] warmly to be welcomed. A major musicological event.”―Early Music“The editions are handsomely presented…this series performs a valuable service.”―Notes“Historians and performers alike welcome the long-overdue edition of Scarlatti’s operas―an edition at once practical and unquestionably scholarly.”―Opera Journal Read more From the Back Cover This widely praised publication of the work of a key figure in the history of opera provides the most reliable version of the score for each opera, appending a translation of the libretto. La Statira is the ninth opera available in edition, which is under the general editorship of Donald Jay Grout.La Statira was first performed in Rome in January 1690, to inaugurate the carnival season for that year. The opera, with libretto by Cardinal Ottoboni, recounts the story of Alexander the Great's defeat of Darius, King of Persia, and his love for Statira, daughter of Darius. Read more About the Author William C. Holmes is Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine.Donald Jay Grout is Given Foundation Professor of Musicology, Emeritus, at Cornell University. Read more
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