Nicola Antonio Porpora (Composer)
Born: 17th August 1686, Naples, Italy
Died: 3rd March 1768, Naples, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Porpora 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 Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn.
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Interview,
Ophélie Gaillard on A Night in London
The French cellist talks to Katherine about her new album centring on three composer-cellists who made their mark on the English capital in the mid-eighteenth century: the Italians Nicola Porpora and Giovanni Battista Cirri, and the Scotsman James Oswald.
Interview,
Max Cencic on Porpora
The countertenor talks to Katherine about his two recent recordings paying homage to the Neapolitan singing-teacher and composer, the anniversary of whose death fell on 2nd March.
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Popular Works: Porpora
- Alto Giove (from Polifemo) (19)
- Cantata: Il Ritiro (2)
- Cello Concerto in G major (11)
- Come nave in ria tempesta (from Semiramide Regina dell'Assiria) (4)
- Concerto for violoncello and strings in A minor (2)
- D'amor la bella pace (2)
- D'Amore Il Primo Dardo (3)
- Dal povero mio cor (2)
- Dall'amor piu sventurato (Orfeo) (3)
- De profundis (2)
- Destatevi, o pastori (3)
- Destrier che all'armi usato usci dal chiuso al largo (from Poro) (3)
- Dolci freschi aurette...Nell'attendere il mio bene (from Polifemo) (5)
- Ecco che il primo albore (3)
- Già la notte s’avvicina (La pesca) (2)
- Il Gedeone (3)
- In braccio a mille furie (from Semiramide riconosciuta) (3)
- Laetatus sum (2)
- Le limpid’onde (from Ifigenia in Aulide) (3)
- Mira In Cielo (from Arianna e Teseo) (3)
- Misera, e che farò? (Arianna) (2)
- Morte amara (from Lucio Papirio) (2)
- Nobil onda (Adelaïde) (5)
- Oh Dio, che non è vero (2)
- Oh se fosse il mio core (3)
- Or che d’orrido Verno (2)
- Or che una nube ingrata (4)
- Or la nube procellosa (3)
- Orlando (2)
- Placidetti zeffiretti (from Polifemo) (3)
- Questa dunque e la selva (2)
- Salve Regina (9)
- Si pietoso il tuo labbro (from Semiramide Riconosciuta) (3)
- Sonata for cello and continuo in F major (2)
- Stelle lucide (2)
- Torbido intorno al core (from Meride e Selinunte) (3)
- Va' per le vene il sangue (from Il Trionfo di Camilla) (3)
- Vaghi amori (from Festa d'Imeneo) (4)
- Veggo la selva e il monte (2)
- Venticel che tra le frondi (2)
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