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Giovanni Porta (c. 1677 – 21 June 1755) was an Italian
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Giovanni Porta (c. 1677 – 21 June 1755) was an Italian opera
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composer
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. His opera ''Argippo
''Argippo'' is an opera libretto by Domenico Lalli, which in Giovanni Porta's setting premiered in Venice in 1717. Claudio Nicola Stampa's reworked version of the libretto was set as ''L'Argippo'' by . This opera was performed in Milan in 1722. ...
'', to a libretto by Domenico Lalli
Sebastiano Biancardi (27 March 1679 – 9 October 1741), known by the pseudonym Domenico Lalli, was an Italian poet and librettist. Amongst the many libretti he produced, largely for the opera houses of Venice, were those for Vivaldi's ''Ottone i ...
, was premiered in Venice in 1717.Freeman, Daniel E. (1992)''The Opera Theater of Count Franz Anton Von Sporck in Prague''
Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press.
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Venice
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. One of the masters of early 18th-century opera and one of the leading Venetian musicians, Porta made his way from Rome
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, to Vicenza
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Vicenza is a th ...
, to Verona
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, then London
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where his opera '' Numitore'' was performed in 1720 by the Royal Academy of Music (1719)
The Royal Academy of Music was a company founded in February 1719, during George Frideric Handel's residence at Cannons, by a group of aristocrats to secure themselves a constant supply of opera seria. It is not connected to the London con ...
, and eventually back to Venice and Verona, and finally Munich
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, where he spent the last 18 years of his life.
Selected recordings
* Aria ''Madre diletta'' (from Ifigenia in Aulide) on Drama QueensJoyce DiDonato
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...
Alan Curtis (conductor) Virgin Classics
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2012
* Aria ''Mormorando quelle fronde'' (from La costanza combattuta in amore) on Venezia recital Max Cencic
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Virgin Classics 2013
* Sinfonia for trumpet, strings & continuo in D on ''Il Diario di Chiara'' Europa Galante
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The ensemble has been invited to play at festivals and in concert halls such as La Scala in Milan, the Accademia di ...
and Fabio Biondi
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Biography
Born in Palermo, Sicily, Biondi had a late start, having never even held a violin till age 11, but by the follo ...
Glossa Music 2014
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