Stefano Landi has been played on NTS shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, with Homo Fugit Velut Umbra (Passacaglia Della Vita) first played on 9 March 2020.

Stefano Landi (baptized February 26, 1587 – October 28, 1639) was an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School. He was an influential early composer of opera, and wrote the earliest opera on a historical subject: Sant'Alessio (1632).

Landi was born in Rome, the capital of the Papal States. In 1595 he joined the Collegio Germanico in Rome as a boy soprano, and he may have studied with Asprilio Pacelli. Landi took minor orders in 1599 and…