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Author:

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

Title:

L'Africaine [videorecording DVD] / a co-production of WNET, KQED and RM Arts in association with Bayerischer Rundfunk and ORF ; music by Giacomo Meyerbeer ; libretto by Eugene Scribe.

Format:

[videorecording DVD] /

Publisher:

Image Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

1 videodisc (DVD)(191 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Gama, Vasco da,--1469-1524--Drama--Video disc (DVD).
Operas--Video disc (DVD).
DVD-Video discs.

Other Authors:

Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861.
Domingo, Plácido, 1941-
Verrett, Shirley.
Swenson, Ruth Ann.
Díaz, Justino.
Devlin, Michael, 1942-
Skinner, Philip.
Arena, Maurizio, 1935-
Mansouri, Lotfi.
San Francisco Opera.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)

Notes:

Opera in three acts. Performance from 1988. Dolby digital surround sound. Plácido Domingo (Vasco da Gama), Shirley Verrett (Sélika), Ruth Ann Swenson (Inès), Justino Díaz (Nélusko), Michael Devlin (Don Pedro), Philip Skinner (Don Diego) ; other soloists ; San Francisco Opera Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra ; Maurizio Arena, conductor.

Summary:

Vasco da Gama returns to a Portugal seething with political intrigue and hypocrisy to reclaim his love and to mount a new expedition in search of a passage to Africa. The tale is complicated by unrequited love, jealousy and hatred and comes full circle on an unexplored island off the coast of Africa.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48650142

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)