Giuseppe Valeriani: Sketch of sets for the opera, 1755
Native title
Russian: Цефал и Прокрис
Librettist
Alexander Sumarokov
Language
Russian
Based on
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Premiere
7 March 1755 (1755-03-07)
Zimniy Dvorets, St. Petersburg
Cephalus and Prokris (Russian: Цефал и Прокрис – Tsefal i Prokris), is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Francesco Araja. Dating to 1755, it was the first opera written in the Russian language.
Araja composed the opera to a Russian libretto by Alexander Sumarokov after the Metamorphoses of Ovid.
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of Likia. The first opera written in Russian was Araja’s TsefaliProkris (Cephalus and Prokris, libretto by Alexander Sumarokov) that was staged at Saint...
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