
The composer of this opera, Nicolò Porpora, was an Italian Baroque composer of operas and sacred music, born in 1686 and died in 1768.
The opera Arianna in Nasso premiered in London at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre on December 29, 1733.
This recording was made live during the 1999 opera season of the Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa, specifically from performances on October 23 and 24, 1999.
Arianna in Nasso is a dramma per musica (opera) in three acts, with a libretto by Paolo Rolli and a revision by Giovanni Carli Ballola.
The live recording took place at the Teatro Gustavo Modena in Genoa, with Massimo Gasparon as the director.