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