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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| 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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