L'Africaine

L'africaine (The African Woman) is a grand opera, the last work of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French libretto was written by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer's working title for the opera was 'Vasco da Gama', the hero. The events in the opera are, however, entirely fictitious. Gabriela Cruz has published a detailed analysis of the historical context of the events of the opera and the opera setting itself.
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