Nicola Porpora was the leading Italian teacher of singing in the 18th century and also composed over sixty operas. He trained the two legendary castrati Carlo Boschi, known as Farinelli, and Gaetano ...
Montagnana played Polyphemus for both Handel and Porpora. Senesino (Handel’s Acis in 1732) now took the role of the wily Ulysses, whose outwitting of the monstrous Cyclops and love affair with Calipso ...
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Nicola Porpora came to London as a rival to Handel's operatic monopoly, and engaged some of Europe's finest singers.
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