This year’s cycle pays homage to the Italian-Spanish composer on the 300th anniversary of his death and his works are present in the majority of the scheduled concerts. The first cycle begins on 8 March with a production of his opera Narcissus by Fabio Biondi’s Europa Galante ensemble. The Académie du Festival D’Aix en Provence conducted by Kenneth Weiss will follow on the 29th with “Sonatas and sinfonias” by Domenico Scarlatti - Charles Avison.

English Voices and Schola Antiqua, accompanied by Daniel Oyarzabal at the organ, will feature in the month of April with the Madrid Mass on the 14th. Three concerts will take place in May: Harry Christophers and The Sixteen will perform three works, Stabat Mater, Te Deum and Missa Brevis “La Stella” on the 26th, while the harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss will play the Thirty Essercizi on the 5th and 6th.

“Fiestas Reales”, “Spring-Summer” will open on 23 June with another harpsichordist, Andreas Staier, and a repertorie of sonatas still to be determined. On the 26th of that same month, Christophe Rousset’s Les Talens Lyriques will perform Manuel García’s opera Il Califfo di Bagdad. Los Músicos de Su Alteza, conducted by Luís Antonio González, together with the Compañía de Teatro de Pedro María Sánchez, will stage the auto sacramental La Divina Filotea by José de Nebra and Pedro Calderón de la Barca on 14 July; while Sigiswald Kuijken’s La Petite Bande will perform Giuseppe Sellitto’s opera La vedova ingegnosa on 20 July.

Ángel Recasens and his ensemble La Grande Chapelle have been entrusted with inaugurating the “Autumn” cycle on 22 September with a program focusing on Antonio Rodríguez de Hita. On 20 October, the Orchestra Barocca di Venecia and the soprano Simone Kermes in Domenico Scarlatti’s Salve Regina. Another Spaniard, Juan Carlos Rivera, will perform Antonio Literes’s zarzuela Hasta lo insensibile adora with the Armoniosi Concerti on 9 November.

Scarlatti is back in the spotlight at the hands of Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco on the 21st of the same month with the opera Tolomeo e Alessandro. Finally, another Domenico program titled “Antra Valles”, “Cantatas” performed by the Lugano Baroque Ensemble with the soprano Marta Almajano will conclude the cycle on 15 December under the baton of Luca Pianca.