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    Gli orti esperidi (The Gardens of the Hesperides) is a libretto by Metastasio set first in 1721 by Nicola Porpora, and performed 28 August 1721, at the...
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    deum marinum esse conversum» Attilio Mastino, Eracle nel Giardino delle Esperidi e le Ninfe della Sardegna nell'Occidente Mediterraneo mitico, "Archivio...
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    later composers. Metastasio's career began with the serenata Gli orti esperidi ("The Gardens of the Hesperides"). Nicola Porpora, (much later to be Haydn's...
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  • fede nell'incostanza ossia gli amici rivali Nicola Porpora – Gli Orti Esperidi (libretto by Metastasio) Leonardo Vinci – Le Zite 'n Calera Giovanni Bononcini...
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    Metastasio accepted, but kept his authorship secret. He wrote "Gli orti esperidi", which was set to music by Nicola Porpora, and sung by Porpora's pupil...
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  • Destouches) Giuseppe Maria Orlandini – Nerone Nicola Porpora Eumene Gli orti esperidi Alessandro Scarlatti – La Griselda Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Geduldige...
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  • Casaranello and its mosaic. Per aspera ad astra, Monteroni di Lecce, Esperidi, 2018. A Journey of the Soul. Catharsis and Salvation in the Mosaic of...
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  • with whom he had three children. In 1751 he wrote the cantata Gli orti esperidi (The Hesperides gardens) in honor of the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria...
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    'Paradiso Perduto', 'Tabacco Ambrato', 'Fior di Loto' and 'Fiori degli Esperidi'; Gran Premio, a perfume for women, Curaderma, the after-bath moisturising...
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    inspired by antiquity, played in Naples: Angelica (1720), Endimione, Gli Orti esperidi (1721), Galatea (1722) and a few months before Scarlatti's work, La Forza...
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