Nicola Porpora
Italian composer
Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Giacinto Porpora (17 August 1686 – 3 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students included composers Johann Adolph Hasse, Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn.
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Works
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- Polifemo 1735
- 6 Sinfonie da camera, op. 2
- Adelaide
- Arianna e Teseo
- Arianna in Nasso
- Artaserse
- Carlo il Calvo
- Cello Concerto in G
- Cello Concerto in G major
- Cello Sonata in G major
- Concerto for Cello and Strings in A minor
- Credimi pur che t’amo
- Didone abbandonata
- Ezio
- Flavio Anicio Olibrio
- Germanico in Germania
- Già la notte s’avvicina “La pesca”
- Gli orti esperidi
- Ifigenia in Aulide
- Il trionfo di Camilla
- In Procella sine stella
- In caelo stelle clare
- L'Angelica
- La festa d'Imeneo
- Lucio Papirio
- Lucio Papirio dittatore
- Mitridate
- Or che d’orrido Verno
- Or sì m’avveggio, oh Amore
- Perdono, amata Nice (La Gelosia) S.88b
- Questo è il platano frondoso
- Regina Cæli
- Salve Regina in G major for Soprano
- Semiramide regina dell'Assiria
- Semiramide riconosciuta
- Siface
- Sonata, op. 2 no. 3
- Sonate XII di Violino e Basso
- Statira
- Temistocle
- Tiridate
Box sets & recent recordings
- Porpora: Polifemo — Nicola Porpora, Franco Fagioli, José Coca Loza, Julia Lezhneva, Stefan Plewniak, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Éléonore Pancrazi (2025) box set · 60 tracks Spotify
- Porpora: Cello Concertos & Sonatas — Nicola Porpora, Musica Perduta, Renato Criscuolo (2018) box set · 35 tracks Spotify
- Salve — Nicola Porpora, Nicholas Spanos, Pandolfis Consort, Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir (2025) Spotify
Box sets & recent releases via Spotify — surfaced automatically, not editorial picks.