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    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...
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  • complete list of the operas written by the Italian composer Nicola Porpora (1686–1768). "Porpora's Orfeo: a plunge into the Neapolitan golden century" by Lorenzo...
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    the most famous singing-teacher in Naples, Nicola Porpora. Already a successful opera composer, in 1715 Porpora was appointed maestro at the Conservatory...
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  • a composition by his older brother Riccardo for his voice teacher, Nicola Porpora. He cries and runs to his father, who comforts him, but extracts a promise...
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    Joseph Haydn (category Pupils of Nicola Porpora)
    eventually, in 1752, as valet-accompanist for the Italian composer Nicola Porpora, from whom he later said he learned "the true fundamentals of composition"...
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    Caldara, Alessandro Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Porpora, Leonardo Vinci, Johann Adolph Hasse, Leonardo Leo, Baldassare Galuppi...
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    Polifemo (opera) (category Operas by Nicola Porpora)
    Polifemo is an opera in three acts by Nicola Porpora with a libretto by Paolo Rolli. The opera is based on a combination of two mythological stories involving...
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    Caffarelli (castrato) (category Pupils of Nicola Porpora)
    stage name Caffarelli. Like Farinelli, Caffarelli was a student of Nicola Porpora. Caffarelli was born Gaetano Carmine Francesco Paolo Majorano to Vito...
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    Marianna Martines (category Pupils of Nicola Porpora)
    were on the third floor. Another resident of the middle floors was Nicola Porpora, a well-known Italian singing teacher and composer. At the very top...
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    Giovanni Salvatore and Gennaro Ursino. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Nicola Porpora [pupils] Leonardo Vinci this teacher's teachers Greene (1696–1755) studied...
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  • harpsichord, who was supposed to represent George Frideric Handel or Nicola Porpora; a fencing master; a quarterstaff instructor; a dancing master with...
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  • Catholic prelate Gabriella Porpora (born 1942), Italian artist Kenny Porpora (born either 1986 or 1987), American author Nicola Porpora (1686–1768), Italian...
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    Germanico in Germania (category Operas by Nicola Porpora)
    Germania is an opera in three acts composed by Nicola Porpora to an Italian-language libretto by Nicola Coluzzi. It premiered in February 1732 at the Teatro...
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    Johann Adolph Hasse (category Pupils of Nicola Porpora)
    time. Also at this time the hierarchy at Dresden was restructured; Nicola Porpora was named Kapellmeister, while Hasse himself was promoted to Oberkapellmeister...
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  • 18th-century teachers of the style were Antonio Bernacchi (1685–1756) and Nicola Porpora (1686–1768), but many others existed. A number of these teachers were...
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  • Romo movement Orlando (opera), an opera by Handel Orlando, an opera by Nicola Porpora "Orlando", a song from the musical The Book of Mormon "Orlando", a song...
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  • Carlo il Calvo (category Operas by Nicola Porpora)
    Carlo il Calvo (Charles the Bald) is an opera seria in 3 acts by Nicola Porpora that premiered in the spring of 1738 at Rome's Teatro delle Dame. 2022:...
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    between Arminius and Germanicus were immortalized by the Italian composer Nicola Porpora in his opera Germanico in Germania. She was also a character in the...
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  • Orlando and elopes with Medoro. The 1720 serenata Angelica e Medoro by Nicola Porpora is a setting of the same libretto. L'Angelica, Joana Seara (soprano)...
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    Angelica e Medoro is a 1720 serenata by Nicola Porpora to libretto by Metastasio, after Ludovico Ariosto. The opera, written to celebrate the birthday...
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    of which include: Germanico in Germania (1732), an Italian opera by Nicola Porpora. He was played by Domenico Annibali. Death of Germanicus (1773–1774)...
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    Arianna in Nasso is a 1733 opera by Nicola Porpora to a libretto by Paolo Rolli, chief conductor of the Opera of the Nobility. The choice of the subject...
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    his Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 in 1707, his earliest surviving autograph. Nicola Porpora set the psalm in 1720, and both Jan Dismas Zelenka and Antonio Vivaldi...
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    Caldara (1718), Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (1732), Giovanni Porta (1738), Nicola Porpora (1735), Girolamo Abos (1752), Giuseppe Sarti (1777), Angelo Tarchi (1785)...
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  • studied with Alessandro Scarlatti. Leonardo Vinci, Giuseppe Porsile, Nicola Porpora, and Domenico Scarlatti (perhaps also Giovanni Battista Pergolesi) were...
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    Mitridate is an opera by Nicola Antonio Porpora to a libretto by Filippo Vanstriper premiered in Rome in 1730. Porpora and revived and revised the work...
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  • (sculpture), an 1888 bronze by Auguste Rodin Polifemo, an Italian opera by Nicola Porpora The name of the gas giant in the Avatar series, which Pandora orbits...
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    Temistocle is an opera in three acts composed by Nicola Porpora to an Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno. It was first performed at the Hoftheater in Vienna...
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    Cassiano in Venice, but the same libretto was put to music also by Nicola Porpora (1711, in Naples, as Il trionfo di Flavio Anicio Olibrio), Prosopography...
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    followed, it was set more than 50 times by other composers such as Nicola Porpora (1725), Leonardo Vinci (1726), Baldassare Galuppi (1740), Johann Adolph...
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