Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic

Meyerbeer's grand opera L'Africaine (1865) tells the story of the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's triumphant journey back from the east African coast and his love for an African slave. It raises questions relating to the representation of miscegenation and Iberi...

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Main Author: Andrews, Jean
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Published: Modern Humanities Research Association 2007
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description Meyerbeer's grand opera L'Africaine (1865) tells the story of the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's triumphant journey back from the east African coast and his love for an African slave. It raises questions relating to the representation of miscegenation and Iberian identity on the nineteenth-century grand opera stage.
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spelling nottingham-320992020-05-04T16:26:40Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32099/ Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic Andrews, Jean Meyerbeer's grand opera L'Africaine (1865) tells the story of the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's triumphant journey back from the east African coast and his love for an African slave. It raises questions relating to the representation of miscegenation and Iberian identity on the nineteenth-century grand opera stage. Modern Humanities Research Association 2007-01-01 Article PeerReviewed Andrews, Jean (2007) Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic. Modern Language Review, 102 (1). pp. 108-124. ISSN 0026-7937 Grand Opera Meyerbeer Vasco da Gama Miscegenation Iberian Portuguese http://www.jstor.org/stable/20467155?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
spellingShingle Grand Opera
Meyerbeer
Vasco da Gama
Miscegenation
Iberian
Portuguese
Andrews, Jean
Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic
title Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic
title_full Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic
title_fullStr Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic
title_full_unstemmed Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic
title_short Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic
title_sort meyerbeer's "l'africaine": french grand opera and the iberian exotic
topic Grand Opera
Meyerbeer
Vasco da Gama
Miscegenation
Iberian
Portuguese
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