List of operas by Nicola Porpora

This is a complete list of the operas written by the Italian composer Nicola Porpora (1686–1768).

## List

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Title | Genre | Sub­divisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre

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Agrippina | opera seria | 3 acts | Nicola Giuvo | 4 November 1708 | Naples, Palazzo Reale
Flavio Anicio Olibrio | opera seria | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati | January 1711 | Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo
Basilio, re di Oriente | opera seria |  | after Giovanni Battista Neri | 24 June 1713 | Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini
Arianna e Teseo | opera seria |  | Pietro Pariati | 1714 | Vienna, Hof
Berenice regina d'Egitto, ovvero Le gare di amore | opera seria | 3 acts | Antonio Salvi | carnival 1718 | Rome, Teatro Capranica
Temistocle | opera seria | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno | 1 October 1718 | Vienna, Hof
Faramondo | opera seria |  | Apostolo Zeno, after Gautier de Costes de La Calprenède | 19 November 1719 | Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo
Angelica | serenata |  | Metastasio, after Ludovico Ariosto | 28 August 1720 | Naples, Palazzo del Principe di Torella
Eumene | opera seria |  | Apostolo Zeno | carnival 1721 | Rome, Teatro Alibert
Gli orti esperidi | serenata |  | Metastasio | 28 August 1721 | Naples, Palazzo Reale
Flavio Anicio Olibrio
(revision) | opera seria | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati | carnival 1722 | Rome, Teatro Alibert
Adelaide | opera seria |  | Antonio Salvi | carnival 1723 | Rome, Teatro Alibert
Amare per regnare | opera seria |  | after Francesco Passarini's Amore e fortunata | 12 December 1723 | Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo
Imeneo | componimento drammatico | 2 acts | Silvio Stampiglia | 1723 | Naples
Semiramide regina dell'Assiria | opera seria | 3 acts | after Ippolito Zanelli's Nino | spring 1724 | Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo
Damiro e Pitia | opera seria |  | Domenico Lalli | 12 October 1724 | Munich
Siface | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | carnival 1725 | Milan, Ducale
Didone abbandonata | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | Ascension 1725 | Reggio Emilia, Pubblico
La verita nell'inganno | opera seria | 3 acts | Francesco Silvani | carnival 1726 | Milan, Regio Ducal
Meride e Selinunte | opera seria | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno | carnival 1726 | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo
Siroe, re di Persia | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | February 1727 | Rome, Teatro delle Dame
Arianna e Teseo
(revised) | opera seria | 3 acts | Pietro Pariati | autumn 1727 | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo
Ezio | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio? and Domenico Lalli | 20 November 1728 | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo
Semiramide riconosciuta | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio, revised by Domenico Lalli? | carnival 1729,
20 January 1739 | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo, revised for Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Ermenegilda | opera seria |  |  | 1729 | Naples
Mitridate | opera seria | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno and Filippo Vanstryp | carnival 1730 | Rome, Teatro Capranica
Tamerlano | opera seria | 3 acts | Agostino Piovene, after Jacques Pradon | carnival 1730 | Turin, Regio
Poro | opera seria | 3 acts | after Metastasio's Alessandro nell'Indie | carnival 1731 | Turin, Regio
Annibale | opera seria | 3 acts | Filippo Vanstryp | autumn 1731 | Venice, San Angelo
Germanico in Germania | opera seria | 3 acts | Nicola Coluzzi | February 1732 | Rome, Teatro Capranica
Issipile | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | carnival 1733 | Rome, Rucellai
Arianna in Nasso | opera seria | 3 acts | Paolo Antonio Rolli | 29 December 1733 | London, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
Enea nel Lazio | opera seria | 3 acts | Paolo Antonio Rolli | 11 May 1734 | London, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
Polifemo | opera seria | 3 acts | Paolo Antonio Rolli | 1 February 1735 | London, King's Theatre
Ifigenia in Aulide | opera seria | 3 acts | Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Apostolo Zeno | 3 May 1735 | London, King's Theatre
Mitridate | opera seria | 3 acts | Gavrado da Gavrado
(pseudonym of Colley Cibber) | 24 January 1736 | London, King's Theatre
Orfeo | pasticcio with J. A. Hasse, F. M. Veracini & others | 3 acts | Paolo Antonio Rolli | 2 March 1736 | London, King's Theatre[1][2]
La festa d'Imeneo | componimento drammatico |  | Paolo Antonio Rolli | 4 May 1736 | London, King's Theatre
Lucio Papirio | opera seria | 3 acts | Antonio Salvi, revised by Giovanni Boldoni | carnival 1737 | Venice, San Cassiano
Rosbale | opera seria | 3 acts | after Claudio Nicola Stampa's Eumene | autumn 1737 | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo
Carlo il Calvo | opera seria | 3 acts | anonymous | spring 1738 | Rome, Teatro delle Dame
Il barone di Zampano | opera buffa |  | Pietro Trinchera | spring 1739 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
L'amico fedele | opera buffa |  | Giuseppe di Pietro | autumn 1739 | Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini
Intermezzo for the marriage of the Infante D Filippo |  |  |  | 1739 | Madrid
Il trionfo di Camilla | opera seria |  | Silvio Stampiglia | 20 January 1740 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Tiridate | opera seria | 3 acts | after Metastasio's Zenobia | 19 December 1740 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Il trionfo del valore | comedia per musica |  | Antonio Palomba | winter 1741 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Giascone | serenata? |  |  | 1742 | Naples
Statira | opera seria | 3 acts | Francesco Silvani | carnival 1742 | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo
Partenope | opera seria |  |  | 1742 | Naples
La Rosmene | opera seria | 3 acts |  | 1742 | Vienna
Temistocle | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | 22 February 1743 | London, Haymarket Theatre
Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe | opera seria |  |  | carnival 1744 | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo
Filandro-Philander | opera seria | 3 acts | after Vincenzo Cassani's L'incostanza schernita | 18 July 1747 | Dresden, Hof
Il trionfo di Camilla
(second version) | opera seria |  | Silvio Stampiglia, revised by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi | 30 May 1760 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo

## References

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1. ^ "Porpora's Orfeo: a plunge into the Neapolitan golden century" by Lorenzo Fiorito, Bachtrack, 6 August 2019
2. ^ Sechi, Giovanni A. (2021). "L'Orfeo di Porpora e Veracini. Un pasticcio per Farinelli". In Luigi Verde (ed.). Mito, storia e sogno di Farinelli. Lucca: LIM. ISBN 9788855431026.

Sources

* Monson, Dale E. (1992), "Porpora, Nicola" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

## External links

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* Free scores by Nicola Antonio Porpora at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

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List of operas

Opera|

* Temistocle (1718)
* Angelica (1720)
* Semiramide riconosciuta (1729)
* Germanico in Germania (1730)
* Mitridate (1730)
* Arianna in Nasso (1733)
* Polifemo (1735)
* La festa d'Imeneo (1736)
* Carlo il Calvo (1738)

Students|

* Caffarelli
* Matteo Capranica
* Farinelli
* Joseph Haydn

Related|

* Frederick, Prince of Wales
* Neapolitan School

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