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 New York Review of Books
[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
Historians and performers alike welcome the long-overdue edition of Scarlatti’s operas—an edition at once practical and unquestionably scholarly.
-- Opera Journal