Alessandro Stradella may not be the first composer to come to mind when contemplating the great baroque masters of the 17th century, but he was unquestionably the most colourful. According to reliable ...

Alessandro Stradella was one of the most colourful characters in the 17th-century Italian baroque. Though many details about his career as a composer remain sketchy, the circumstances of his death at ...

I first came across Stradella when I heard my friend, the musicologist Alberto Sanna, playing his violin sonatas at Hope University, where we both teach. I’d never heard anything like them. They were ...

Alessandro Stradella’s colourful life and eventual murder have since furnished writers with material for novels and stageworks. But he was very highly regarded as a composer during his short life, and ...

Damien Guillon explains the lure of Stradella’s oratorio San Giovanni Battista I first came across the music of Alessandro Stradella while I was a student at the Centre de Musique Baroque, hunting ...

‘The Monteverdi Circle’, an ongoing series to which these first two discs contribute, does not question the composer’s stature, but reveals contemporaries no less great. D’India admitted delighting in ...

Catapult Opera will present the American stage premiere of Stradella’s “San Giovanni Battista,” in co-production with Washington D.C.’s In Series. The showcase, set for June 11 – 13, 2025 at The Space ...