page_title: Argippo
section_title: Porta
hierarchical_section_title: Argippo / 1717–1722 / Porta
caption_attribution_description: English: First page of manuscript Mus.2444-F-1 at Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB): Giovanni Porta's setting of Domenico Lalli's Il gran Mogol = Argippo libretto, premiered in Venice, autumn 1717
context_page_description: Argippo is an opera libretto by Domenico Lalli, which in Giovanni Porta's setting premiered in Venice in 1717. Claudio Nicola Stampa's reworked version of the libretto was set as L'Argippo by Andrea Stefano Fiorè. This opera was performed in Milan in 1722.
  Antonio Vivaldi's Argippo, RV 697, based on Stampa's version of the libretto, was staged in two different versions in 1730, first in Vienna, and later in Prague. The music of both of these versions is lost. Vivaldi's setting of the Argippo libretto partially survives in a pasticcio, RV Anh. 137, which, in the 21st century, was the basis for a reconstruction of the Prague version of Vivaldi's opera.
context_section_description: Porta's Argippo was first performed on 31 October 1717 in Venice, in the Teatro San Cassiano. Both the printed libretto (titled L'Argippo: Drama per musica) and the manuscript score (titled Argippo) of this performance survive. A four-page dedication by Lalli precedes the text of his libretto. There is no sinfonia (overture) in the score. There are fifteen scenes in the first act, fourteen in the second act, and nine in the last act. The text in the score closely follows the original libretto. The printed libretto contains text variants for nine arias, but it is not known whether these alternative texts were set by Porta.
  In 1722, Porta's opera was re-staged in Venice, this time in the Teatro San Moisè. Also for this production, Lalli wrote a dedication in the printed libretto.
caption: First page of the manuscript score of Giovanni Porta's Argippo (1717).[8]
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