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

Andrews, Jean

Abstract

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.

Citation

Andrews, J. (2007). Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic. Modern Language Review, 102(1),

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2007
• Deposit Date: Mar 3, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 3, 2016
• Journal: Modern Language Review
• Print ISSN: 0026-7937
• Electronic ISSN: 0026-7937
• Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 1
• Keywords: Grand Opera, Meyerbeer, Vasco da Gama, Miscegenation, Iberian, Portuguese
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/703849
• Publisher URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20467155?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents