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This is a complete list of the operas written by the Italian

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composer Nicola Porpora
Nicola Porpora
Nicola Porpora was an Italian composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. One of his other students was composer Matteo Capranica.-Biography:Porpora was born in Naples...

(1686–1768).

List

Title	\|Genre	\|Subdivisions	\|Libretto	\|Première date	Place, theatre
Agrippina	opera seria Opera seria Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770...	3 acts	N. Giuvo	4 November 1708	Naples Naples Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples... , Palazzo Reale
Flavio Anicio Olibrio	opera seria	3 acts	Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.-Early life:Apostolo Zeno was born of Cretan Greek descent in Venice in 1669... and Pietro Pariati	January 1711	Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo
Basilio, re di Oriente	opera seria		after G. Neri	24 June 1713	Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini
Arianna e Teseo	opera seria		Pietro Pariati	1714	Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... , Hof
Berenice regina d'Egitto, ovvero Le gare di amore	opera seria	3 acts	Antonio Salvi Antonio Salvi Antonio Salvi was an Italian physician, court poet and librettist. He was in the service of the ducal court in Florence and the favourite librettist of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici. Salvi was one of the developers of the opera seria.- Life :Salvi was a court physician in Florence for the De'...	carnival 1718	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , Teatro Capranica
Temistocle	opera seria	3 acts	Apostolo Zeno	1 October 1718	Vienna, Hof
Faramondo	opera seria				Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo
Angelica	serenata		Metastasio Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:...	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	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 F. 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 I. Zanelli's Nino	spring 1724	Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo
Damiro e Pitia	opera seria		D. Lalli	12 October 1724	Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
Siface	opera seria	3 acts	Metastasio	carnival 1725	Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... , Ducale
Didone abbandonata	opera seria	3 acts	Metastasio	Ascension 1725	Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia.... , Pubblico
La verita nell'inganno	opera seria	3 acts	F. Silvani	carnival 1726	Milan, Regio Ducal
Meride e Selinunte	opera seria	3 acts	Apostolo Zeno	carnival 1726	Venice Venice Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region... , Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo
Siroe, re di Persia	opera seria	3 acts	Metastasio	February 1727	Rome, 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 Lalli	20 November 1728	Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo
Semiramide riconosciuta Semiramide riconosciuta Semiramide riconosciuta is an Italian opera with serious action, or dramma per musica, by Nicola Porpora, set to a libretto by the renowned poet Metastasio with some textual changes, possibly by Domenico Lalli...	opera seria	3 acts	Metastasio, revised by Lalli?	carnival 1729, 20 January 1739	Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo, revised for Naples, Teatro di San Carlo Teatro di San Carlo The Real Teatro di San Carlo is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is the oldest continuously active such venue in Europe.Founded by the Bourbon Charles VII of Naples of the Spanish branch of the dynasty, the theatre was inaugurated on 4 November 1737 — the king's name day — with a performance...
Ermenegilda	opera seria			1729	Naples
Mitridate	opera seria	3 acts	Apostolo Zeno and Filippo Vanstryp	carnival 1730	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , Teatro Capranica
Tamerlano	opera seria	3 acts	A. Piovene	carnival 1730	Turin Turin Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat... , 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	2 acts	N. 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 London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... , Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre Lincoln's Inn Fields Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London, UK. It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, "the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in developing London", as Sir Nikolaus Pevsner observes...
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 Her Majesty's Theatre Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, in Haymarket, City of Westminster, London. The present building was designed by Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the 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	G. da Gavrado (C. 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 G. Boldoni	carnival 1737	Venice, San Cassiano
Rosbale	opera seria	3 acts	after C. N. Stampa's Eumene	autumn 1737	Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo
Carlo il Calvo	opera seria	3 acts	anonym	spring 1738	Rome, Teatro Dame
Il barone di Zampano	opera buffa Opera buffa Opera buffa is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia per musica’, ‘dramma bernesco’, ‘dramma comico’, ‘divertimento giocoso' etc...		P. Trinchera	spring 1739	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
L'amico fedele	opera buffa		G. di Pietro	autumn 1739	Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini
Intermezzo for the marriage of the Infante D Filippo				1739	Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
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		A. Polomba	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 Haymarket Theatre The Theatre Royal Haymarket is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use...
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 Dresden Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area.... , Hof
Il trionfo di Camilla (second version)	opera seria		Silvio Stampiglia, revised by G. Lorenzi	30 May 1760	Naples, Teatro San Carlo

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