Who wrote the texts for Domenico Scarlatti’s operas in Rome?

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Domenico Scarlatti Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.

During his time in Rome, where he served as musical director and composer to the exiled queen Maria Casimira of Poland, Domenico Scarlatti composed a series of operas and occasional pieces. The texts for all of these works were written by the queen’s secretary, Carlo Sigismondo Capeci.1