Alessandro Stradella: The ‘Bad Boy’ of Italian Baroque?

Alessandro Stradella was an extraordinarily prolific Baroque composer, a musical innovator, and, it would seem, an accomplished seducer. His talent led, fifteen years ago, to the creation of a festival dedicated to him; his love affairs, meanwhile, are said to have cost him his life in 1682. A dive into the eventful life (to say the least) of one of the seventeenth century’s most celebrated artists. The festival dedicated to him will take place from 29 August to 27 September in Viterbo and Nepi, Italy.