FULL IFIGENIA IN AULIDE (Porpora) Bayreuth 2024 Max Emanuel Cenci, Jasmin Delfs, Riccardo Novaro, Nicolò Balducci
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Ifigenia in Aulide
- Composer: Porpora Nicola
- Libretto: Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Apostolo Zeno Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth, Germany, Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival
- Recorded: September 15, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Max Emanuel Cenci, Jasmin Delfs, Riccardo Novaro, Nicolò Balducci, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Maayan Licht
- Conductor: Christophe Rousset
- Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques
- Stage Director: Max Emanuel Cencic
- Stage Designer: Giorgina Germanou
- Costume Designer:
- Lighting Designer: Romain De Lagarde
Information about the Recording
- Published by: ARTE
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, desubs, frsubs
- Video Recording from: ARTE FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
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 famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students included composers Johann Adolph Hasse, Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn.
A good linguist, who was admired for the idiomatic fluency of his recitatives, and a man of considerable literary culture, Porpora was also celebrated for his conversational wit. He was well-read in Latin and Italian literature, wrote poetry and spoke French, German, and English.
Besides some four dozen operas, there are oratorios, solo cantatas with keyboard accompaniment, motets and vocal serenades. Among his larger works, his 1720 opera Orlando,[2] oratorio Gedeone (1737), one mass,[3] his Venetian Vespers,[4] and the operas Germanico in Germania (1732) and Arianna in Nasso (1733 according to HOASM)[5] have been recorded.