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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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    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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  • 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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    Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Tomaso Albinoni, Nicola Porpora, Leonardo Vinci, Johann Adolph Hasse, Leonardo Leo, Baldassare Galuppi...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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