Alessandro Stradella's star burned brightly but briefly; his music glorious, his lifestyle dissolute - murdered aged 38. Hannah French & Andrew Kirkman explore his life & work. Show more Alessandro ...

Alessandro Stradella is a name that might ring a bell with champions of early Baroque music. As for me, I knew he existed, but beyond a short Sinfonia from his Christmas Eve Cantata, I wasn’t familiar ...

San Giovanni Battista Academia Montis Regalis/ de Marchi (Hyperion CDA67617) £12.99 The assassins who thrust their daggers three times into the back of Alessandro Stradella killed not only one of ...

This new drama is inspired by the true story of 17th century Italian composer, Alessandro Stradella. The characters in this drama are real historical figures brought back to life by writer Frank ...

The 17th Stradella is little-known today, but his music – and his colourful life – are well worth exploring Born in Bologna in either 1639 or 1643 (sources conflict), Alessandro Stradella packed so ...

What's the secret of a successful opera? There's the music, of course. Some of the greatest songs have begun life on the stage. But the top and bottom of it is the story, and the more melodramatic it ...

The recording is streaming on all major platforms. The hard copy CD may be purchased on bandcamp at https://salonsanctuary.bandcamp.com/album/ester-liberatrice-del ...

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 ...

The Old Testament story of a blustering genocidal despot and the canny woman who resists and brings him down finds voice in one of the most innovative works of the violent, volatile, and tragically ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The baroque composer Alessandro Stradella has long sparked the imaginations of fellow musicians. The racy events of ...

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 ...

Le gare dell’amore eroico, Movements: Overture Mare Nostrum Ensemble Andrea De Carlo, Conductor Le gare dell’amore eroico, Movements: Sì, che l’ucciderò Silvia Frigato, Soprano Mare Nostrum Ensemble ...