Name: L'Africaine
Start: 1988-08-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1988-08-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Maurizio Arena

Mise en scène

Lotfi Mansouri

Décors

Wolfram Skalicki

Costumes

Amrei Skalicki

Lumières

Thomas J Munn

Ténor

Plácido Domingo

Vasco da Gama

Soprano

Shirley Verrett

Selika

Ruth Ann Swenson

Ines

Baryton

Justino Díaz

Nélusko

Basse

Michael Devlin

Don Pédro

San Francisco Opera

Orchestra

San Francisco Opera Orchestra

L'Africaine

San Francisco

États-Unis

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The great Plácido Domingo in Meyerbeer's last opera.

Ines is forced by her father, the Grand Amiral Don Diego, to marry Don Pedro instead of her true love, Vasco da Gama, who is thought to be dead in his last expedition. However Vasco suddenly reappears and announces that he has discovered new lands from where he brought Selinka and Nelusko with him. Being refused the means for a new expedition, Vasco insults the Grand Inquisitor who in return excommunicates him and put him in jail. Ines accepts to marry Don Pedro provided that Vasco is released. Don Pedro decides to explore the new lands, helped in his endeavour by Nelusko, who secretely designs to bring the expedition to its ruin. Trapped in a tempest, the fleet perishes. Only escape Vasco, Ines, Nelusko and Selinka, who appears eventually to be the queen of these far-reached lands. Besides, in love with Vasco, she saves him from a death penalty placed upon every foreigner reaching the shore. But Vasco runs to join Ines in her execution. Moved by this true gesture of love, Selinka set them free and allows them to go back to their homeland, Portugal.

Lying within the French Grand Opera tradition, L'Africaine recounts a heartbreaking love story in which faithfulness and devotion are rewarded at the expense of a tragic and deadly dénouement. Abandoned by Vasco, Selinka kills herself, bringing Nelusko in her last journey. Though the last opera of Meyerbeer is seldom produced nowadays, L'Africaine had a great success throughout the 19th century. In a historical production by Lotfi Mansouri, Plácido Domingo and Shirley Verrett embody Vasco de Gama and Ines in Meyerbeer's forgotten masterwork.

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Valide

English

L'Africaine by Meyerbeer, Du (1988/1988), Dirigé par Lotfi Mansouri,, Chef d'orchestre Maurizio Arena, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, États-Unis

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