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Propora's Mitridate at Schloss Schwetzingen lacks dramatic sense (blame librettist Cibber and director Spirei). But exciting music strongly delivered makes a case for more Porpora in the repertoire.

Weit weniger bombastisch als die Uraufführung ist diese "Opernausgrabung" beim Winter in Schwetzingen, doch das junge Heidelberger Ensemble überzeugt gesanglich und darstellerisch.

The genre of semi-opera is a peculiarly British one. Emerging from the courtly Masques during the restoration, the semi-opera served as an English operatic utterance, at a time where opera was emerging as one of the pre-eminent theatrical forms in Europe.