Horst-Tanu Margraf, Händel-Festspielorchester Halle - Georg Friedrich Händel: Poros (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 856 Mb | Total time: 52:00+56:00+48:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Berlin Classics | # 0093742BC | Recorded: 1958
Poro, re dell'Indie ("Porus, King of the Pakistani region", 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. The libretto had already been set to music by Leonardo Vinci in 1729 and by Antonio Vivaldi among others and was used as the text for more than sixty operas throughout the 18th century.