List of operas by Nicola Porpora

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

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Title Genre Sub­divisions Libretto Première date Place, theatre
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

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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.

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