The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Volume IX: La Statira

“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, The New York Review of Books

“Historians and performers alike welcome the long-overdue edition of Scarlatti’s operas—an edition at once practical and unquestionably scholarly.”—Opera Journal

“[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