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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...
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  • Kenny Porpora (born 1986/7) is an American author, speaker, and LGBTQ+ advocate. His first book, The Autumn Balloon, was published in 2015 by Hachette...
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  • Porpora is an Italian surname. Notable people with this surname include: Francesco Antonio Porpora (1575–1640), Italian Roman Catholic prelate Gabriella...
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    Poe Toaster (redirect from Sam Porpora)
    man named Sam Porpora claimed that he had started the Poe Toaster tradition. A former historian for Baltimore's Westminster Church, Porpora claimed that...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Mauro Porpora is a paralympic athlete from Italy competing mainly in category T11 sprint events. Mauro Porpora competed in the Paralympics in 2000 where...
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    Gabriella Porpora (born 22 June 1942) is an Italian multimedia artist who works with paint, plexiglass, and wood. Porpora was born in Rome to a Roman...
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  • Porpora. [1] "Beaune, le 24 juillet 2015. Porpora: Il Trionfo della Divina Giustizia. Dans la Basilique Notre Dame de Beaune, Nicolo Antonio Porpora ressuscite...
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    an unknown visitor affectionately referred to as the "Poe Toaster". Sam Porpora was a historian at the Westminster Church in Baltimore, where Poe is buried;...
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    Paolo Porpora (1617–1673) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, who was active mainly in Naples and specialized in floral still lifes. He is documented...
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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 for...
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  • Antonio Porpora (1575–1640) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Montemarano (1635–1640). Francesco Antonio Porpora was born...
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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 Majorano...
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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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  • 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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    of opera seria include Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi and Nicola Porpora. Mozart K. 527 Overture to Don Giovanni (1787) Problems playing this file...
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    delayed after firing contractor". July 13, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2018. Porpora, Tracey (May 8, 2018). "Exclusive: NY Wheel strikes major deal; will it...
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  • 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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    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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    (1703–1707), Brandenburg Concertos (1721), St Matthew Passion (1727) Nicola Porpora (1686–1768), Semiramide riconosciuta (1729) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi...
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    Farinelli (category Pupils of Nicola Porpora)
    most famous singing-teacher in Naples, Nicola Porpora. Already a successful opera composer, in 1715 Porpora was appointed maestro at the Conservatory of...
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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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    Antonio Porpora and Christoph Schaffrath. He sang in venues in Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Dresden, singing the title parts in operas by Porpora and Antonio...
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    which include: Germanico in Germania (1732), an Italian opera by Nicola Porpora. He was played by Domenico Annibali. Death of Germanicus (1773–1774), a...
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    Porpora, Tracey (December 14, 2018). "Exclusive: NY Wheel must pay to restore site, according to lease". silive.com. Retrieved May 30, 2019. Porpora,...
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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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  • Alessandro Scarlatti, based on Mithridates VI of Pontus Mitridate (Porpora), 1730 opera by Porpora Mitridate, re di Ponto, 1770 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
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    Francesco Geminiani Pietro Locatelli Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Nicola Porpora Giuseppe Tartini Francesco Maria Veracini Proliferation: Erdmann Neumeister...
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    Alessandro Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Porpora, Leonardo Vinci, Johann Adolph Hasse, Leonardo Leo, Baldassare Galuppi...
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