This is a complete list of the operas written by the Italian composer Nicola Porpora (1686–1768).
List TitleGenreSubdivisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatre Agrippina opera seria 3 acts Nicola Giuvo 4 November 1708Naples, Palazzo Reale Flavio Anicio Olibrio opera seria 3 acts Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati January 1711Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo Basilio, re di Oriente opera seria after Giovanni Battista Neri 24 June 1713Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini Arianna e Teseo opera seria Pietro Pariati 1714Vienna, Hof Berenice regina d'Egitto, ovvero Le gare di amore opera seria 3 acts Antonio Salvi carnival 1718Rome, Teatro Capranica Temistocle opera seria 3 acts Apostolo Zeno 1 October 1718Vienna, Hof Faramondo opera seria Apostolo Zeno, after Gautier de Costes de La CalprenèdeNaples, Teatro San Bartolomeo Angelica serenata Metastasio, after Ludovico Ariosto 28 August 1720Naples, Palazzo del Principe di Torella Eumene opera seria Apostolo Zeno carnival 1721Rome, Teatro Alibert Gli orti esperidi serenata Metastasio 28 August 1721Naples, Palazzo Reale Flavio Anicio Olibrio(revision) opera seria 3 acts Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati carnival 1722Rome, Teatro Alibert Adelaide opera seria Antonio Salvi carnival 1723Rome, Teatro Alibert Amare per regnare opera seria after Francesco Passarini's Amore e fortunata 12 December 1723Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo Imeneo componimento drammatico 2 acts Silvio Stampiglia 1723Naples Semiramide regina dell'Assiria opera seria 3 acts after Ippolito Zanelli's Nino spring 1724Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo Damiro e Pitia opera seria Domenico Lalli 12 October 1724Munich Siface opera seria 3 acts Metastasio carnival 1725Milan, Ducale Didone abbandonata opera seria 3 acts Metastasio Ascension 1725Reggio Emilia, Pubblico La verita nell'inganno opera seria 3 acts Francesco Silvani carnival 1726Milan, Regio Ducal Meride e Selinunte opera seria 3 acts Apostolo Zeno carnival 1726Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo Siroe, re di Persia opera seria 3 acts Metastasio February 1727Rome, Teatro delle Dame Arianna e Teseo(revised) opera seria 3 acts Pietro Pariati autumn 1727Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo Ezio opera seria 3 acts Metastasio? and Domenico Lalli 20 November 1728Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo Semiramide riconosciuta opera seria 3 acts Metastasio, revised by Domenico Lalli? carnival 1729,20 January 1739Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo, revised for Naples, Teatro di San Carlo Ermenegilda opera seria 1729Naples Mitridate opera seria 3 acts Apostolo Zeno and Filippo Vanstryp carnival 1730Rome, Teatro Capranica Tamerlano opera seria 3 acts Agostino Piovene, after Jacques Pradon carnival 1730Turin, Regio Poro opera seria 3 acts after Metastasio's Alessandro nell'Indie carnival 1731Turin, Regio Annibale opera seria 3 acts Filippo Vanstryp autumn 1731Venice, San Angelo Germanico in Germania opera seria 3 acts Nicola Coluzzi February 1732Rome, Teatro Capranica Issipile opera seria 3 acts Metastasio carnival 1733Rome, Rucellai Arianna in Nasso opera seria 3 acts Paolo Antonio Rolli 29 December 1733London, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre Enea nel Lazio opera seria 3 acts Paolo Antonio Rolli 11 May 1734London, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre Polifemo opera seria 3 acts Paolo Antonio Rolli 1 February 1735London, King's Theatre Ifigenia in Aulide opera seria 3 acts Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Apostolo Zeno 3 May 1735London, King's Theatre Mitridate opera seria 3 acts Gavrado da Gavrado(pseudonym of Colley Cibber) 24 January 1736London, King's Theatre Orfeo pasticcio with J. A. Hasse, F. M. Veracini & others 3 acts Paolo Antonio Rolli 2 March 1736London, King's Theatre"Porpora's Orfeo: a plunge into the Neapolitan golden century" by Lorenzo Fiorito, Bachtrack, 6 August 2019La festa d'Imeneo componimento drammatico Paolo Antonio Rolli 4 May 1736London, King's Theatre Lucio Papirio opera seria 3 acts Antonio Salvi, revised by Giovanni Boldoni carnival 1737Venice, San Cassiano Rosbale opera seria 3 acts after Claudio Nicola Stampa's Eumene autumn 1737Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo Carlo il Calvo opera seria 3 acts anonymous spring 1738Rome, Teatro delle Dame Il barone di Zampano opera buffa Pietro Trinchera spring 1739Naples, Teatro Nuovo L'amico fedele opera buffa Giuseppe di Pietro autumn 1739Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini Intermezzo for the marriage of the Infante D Filippo 1739Madrid Il trionfo di Camilla opera seria Silvio Stampiglia 20 January 1740Naples, Teatro San Carlo Tiridate opera seria 3 acts after Metastasio's Zenobia 19 December 1740Naples, Teatro San Carlo Il trionfo del valore comedia per musica Antonio Palomba winter 1741Naples, Teatro Nuovo Giascone serenata? 1742Naples Statira opera seria 3 acts Francesco Silvani carnival 1742Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo Partenope opera seria 1742Naples La Rosmene opera seria 3 acts 1742Vienna Temistocle opera seria 3 acts Metastasio 22 February 1743London, Haymarket Theatre Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe opera seria carnival 1744Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo Filandro-Philander opera seria 3 acts after Vincenzo Cassani's L'incostanza schernita 18 July 1747Dresden, Hof Il trionfo di Camilla(second version) opera seria Silvio Stampiglia, revised by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi 30 May 1760Naples, Teatro San Carlo
References
Sources Monson, Dale E. (1992), "Porpora, Nicola" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)
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