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.

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FULL IFIGENIA IN AULIDE (Porpora) Bayreuth 2024 Max Emanuel Cenci, Jasmin Delfs, Riccardo Novaro, Nicolò Balducci

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