L'honestà negli amori

{{Short description|1680 opera by Alessandro Scarlatti}}

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{{Infobox opera

| name = L'honestà negli amori

| composer = Alessandro Scarlatti

| image = Alessandro Scarlatti 2.jpg

| image_upright = 0.8

| caption = The composer as a young man

| librettist = Felice Parnasso (pen name for Gian Lorenzo Bernini or D. F. Bernini or Domenico Filippo Contini)

| translated_name = Honesty in Love Affairs

| language = Italian

| premiere_date = {{Start date|1680|02|03|df=y}}

| premiere_location = Teatro di Palazzo Bernini, Rome

}}

L'honestà negli amori, is a dramma per musica in 3 acts by composer Alessandro Scarlatti. The opera is also known by its English title, Honesty in Love Affairs.{{Cite book |last=Paton |first=John Glenn |title=26 Italian Songs and Arias: An Authoritive Edition Based on Authentic Sources |publisher=Alfred Music |year=1991 |isbn=9780882844893 |language=English}}

Written in 1680, when Scarlatti was 19 years old, it was his second opera. The opera uses an Italian language libretto that was written by either Gian Lorenzo Bernini, D. F. Bernini, or Domenico Filippo Contini, under the pen name "Felice Parnasso".

The work premiered at the {{Interlanguage link|Teatro di Palazzo Bernini|it|Palazzi Bernini}}, the palace of Giovanni Bernini, in Rome on 3 February 1680.{{Almanacco|dmy=03-02-1680|match=L'honestà negli amori}} The opera was performed again in 1682 in Acquaviva delle Fonti at the Palazzo De Mari with Acquaviva laureata, a serenata composed by Giovanni Cesare Netti.Giovanni Tribuzio, "«Scrinium musicalis puteanensis»: catalogo e analisi della produzione musicale di Giovanni Cesare Netti (1646–1686)", in G. Ciliberti, La musica ricercata. Studi d'una nuova generazione di musicologi pugliesi, Bari, Florestano Edizioni, 2016.

Though the opera is obscure today, its aria "Già il sole dal Gange" (The Sun from the Orient), has achieved some popularity. The aria has been recorded by several notable opera singers, including Cecilia Bartoli{{cite magazine|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/arie-antiche-bartoli|access-date=24 February 2025|title=Arie Antiche – Bartoli|type=review|magazine=Gramophone|date=December 1992}} and Luciano Pavarotti.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/pavarotti-in-concert|access-date=24 February 2025|title=Pavarotti in Concert|type=review|magazine=Gramophone|date=March 1987}} In the opera, the song is sung by the character of Saldino, a page boy, who is admiring the sunrise in Algeria.