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