Sunday, June 7, 2009

L'Africaine


Opera in 5 acts by Meyerbeer; libretto by Scribe, premiered in Paris on April 28, 1865. It tells how Vasco da Gama sailed to find a new land beyond Africa, and his ship was wrecked on the African coast, then managed to return to Portugal with two captives............including a love story.

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