This month Federico Guglielmo and his historical instruments ensemble L’arte dell’arco turn to sinfonias and sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and to the same composer’s short intermezzo farce La Dirindina. The intermezzo was a type of entr’acte music inserted as ‘comic relief’ between the acts of court dramas and operas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This particular farsetta involves the personal relations between a budding opera diva and her teacher; she is vain and reluctant to practice, and he is extremely jealous of her lover.