Francesco Araja
Francesco Domenico Araja (or Araia, Russian: Арайя) (born June 25, 1709, Naples, Kingdom of Sicily; died between 1762 and 1770, Bologna, States of the Church) was an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Russian Imperial Court including Tsefal i Prokris, the first opera in Russian.
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