Nocoló Antonio Porpora was born on August 17, 1686, Naples, and died there on 3 March 1768th
His musical education was the composer at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo in Naples as a pupil of Gaetano Greco (around 1657-1728) and then worked as Kapellmeister in the service of Prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, the commander of the imperial troops in Naples.
As an opera composer, he debuted with Agrippina, which was performed at 1708 at the Royal Palace in Naples and repeated at the Teatro San Bartolomeo. 1715 Porpora began at the Conservatorio Sant'Onofrio (Naples) his work as a teacher of singing, from such famous pupils as the castrati Antonio Uberti (who called himself in honor of his teacher Porporino) Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) and Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano) emerged.
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