Handel - Poro
Score of Händel's Poro
Chrysander | Edition 1880 | 132 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 24 MB
Chrysander | Edition 1880 | 132 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 24 MB
Poro, re dell'Indie (or 'Porus, King of the Indians') (HWV 28) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Alessandro nell'Indie by Metastasio, and based on Alexander the Great's encounter with King Porus in 326 BC. Graham Cummings has examined in detail the composition history of Poro in the context of Handel's work on his London operas during the 1730's, and has postulated the principal time of Handel's composing from September 1730 to 16 January 1731, with small revisions prior to the 2 February premiere.[1]
The opera shifted the story's emphasis from Alessandro to Poro and Cleofide, and their relationship.