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L'Africaine
'''''L'Africaine''' (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title L'Africaine, but around 1852 changed the plot to portray fictitious events in the life of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and introduced the working title Vasco de Gama'', the French version of his name. The copying of the full score was completed the day before Meyerbeer died in 1864.
Key facts
- Opera.name
- L'Africaine(Vasco de Gama)
- Opera.type
- Grand opéra
- Opera.composer
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Opera.image
- File:L'Africaine, opera by Meyerbeer, cover of the piano-vocal score – IMSLP.jpg
- Opera.image_upright
- 1.3
- Opera.caption
- Cover of the 1865 piano-vocal score
- Opera.librettist
- Eugène Scribe
- Opera.language
- French
- Opera.premiere_location
- Paris Opéra
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Selika (mezzosoprano), figurino di artista ignoto per L'Africana (1865) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON006087.jpg
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16 sectionsContents
- Composition
- Performance history
- Critical edition of Meyerbeer's autograph score
- Roles
- Synopsis
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Act 5
- Designs for the premiere
- Recordings
- Recordings as ''L'Africaine''
- Recording as ''Vasco de Gama'' (based on Meyerbeer's unedited version)
- References
- External links
'''''L'Africaine''' (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title L'Africaine, but around 1852 changed the plot to portray fictitious events in the life of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and introduced the working title Vasco de Gama, the French version of his name. The copying of the full score was completed the day before Meyerbeer died in 1864.
The opera was premiered the following year by the Paris Opéra in a version made by François-Joseph Fétis, who restored the earlier title, L'Africaine''. The Fétis version was published and was used for subsequent performances until 2013, when some productions and recordings began using Meyerbeer's preferred title, Vasco de Gama, for performing versions with revisions based on the manuscript score. In 2018 the music publisher Ricordi issued a critical edition of Meyerbeer's manuscript full score under that title.