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

Organization

Maestro

Maurizio Arena

Diretor de Palco

Lotfi Mansouri

Cenógrafo

Wolfram Skalicki

Estilista

Amrei Skalicki

Designer de Iluminação

Thomas J Munn

Cantor

Tenor

Plácido Domingo

Vasco de Gama

Soprano

Shirley Verrett

Sélika

Ruth Ann Swenson

Inès

Barítono

Justino Díaz

Nelusco

Baixo

Michael Devlin

Don Pedro

San Francisco Opera

Orchestra

San Francisco Opera Orchestra

L'Africaine

São Francisco

Estados Unidos

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.

Public

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentista

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Ator

Broadcasting

Chorus Director

Compositor

Coral

Coreógrafo

Dançarino

Designer de Som

Designer de Vídeo

Dramaturgo

Estilista de cabelo

Extra

Illustrator

Libretista

Maquiador

Mestre de Coro

Orchestra Operations

Orquestra

Other

Photographer

Poet

Produtor executivo

Repetidor

Stage Manager

Teacher

Tradutor

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Baixo-barítono

Contratenor

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Vocalista Infantil

English

L'Africaine by Meyerbeer, De (1988/1988), Dirigido por Lotfi Mansouri,, Regente Maurizio Arena, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, São Francisco, Estados Unidos

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Conjunto

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