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    L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer...
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    Africaine (Q196) ("African") was an Aurore-class submarine of the French Navy. Still incomplete, she was captured by the Germans in June 1940 during World...
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    where they heard, and did not warm to, Giacomo Meyerbeer's last opera, L'Africaine, and Richard Wagner's overture to Tannhäuser. The opera's premiere in...
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    or Wood is of any use, that I can learn. In Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine (1865), the heroine Sélika dies by inhaling the perfume of the manchineel...
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    operas Les Huguenots (1836) and Le prophète (1849); his last opera (L'Africaine) was performed posthumously. His operas made him the most frequently...
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    retired. He was working on the libretto for Meyerbeer's last opera, L'Africaine, when he died suddenly of a stroke on 20 February 1861, in his carriage...
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    Africaine was one of two 40-gun Preneuse-class frigates of the French Navy built to a design by Raymond-Antoine Haran. She carried twenty-eight 18-pounder...
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    Sélika is the name of an enslaved Hindu princess who is the heroine of L'Africaine, an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer that was unfinished at the time of his...
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  • wrote attractive parts for baritones, too. These included Nelusko in L'Africaine (Meyerbeer's last opera), Mephistopheles in La damnation de Faust (a...
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  • Ejakulation dank afrikanischer Liebeskunst (2005) and Le secret de l’amour à l’africaine (2008) by traditional medicine specialist Nsekuye Bizimana, a Rwandan...
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    a 20th-century perspective. Adamastor is also mentioned in the opera L'Africaine (1865) about Vasco da Gama by the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. The slave...
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    Camões, largely concerns Vasco da Gama's voyages. The 1865 grand opera L'Africaine, composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer from a libretto by Eugène Scribe, prominently...
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    "Zouglou Dance" (2007), "Même pas fatigué !!!" (2009), "Ambiance à l'africaine" (2011), "Chérie coco" (2011) and "Magic in the Air" (2014). In 2024...
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    to Madagascar. The species name comes from the heroine of the opera L'Africaine. Schütte, K. (2017). "Trithemis selika". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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  • Year Work Cast Conductor, Opera House and/or Orchestra Notes Label 1977 L'Africaine Giacomo Meyerbeer Montserrat Caballé, Christine Weidinger, Plácido Domingo...
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    created roles in three major premieres at the Paris Opera – Don Diego in L'Africaine by Meyerbeer (1865), the Monk in Verdi's Don Carlos (1867), and Horatio...
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    silk fabrics. A recent adaptation is the African dirndl (Dirndlkleid à l'Africaine), which is a fusion fashion: the bodice and skirt are made from African...
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  • (Richard Strauss) Santuzza, Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni) Sélika, L'Africaine (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Sieglinde, Die Walküre (Wagner) Turandot, Turandot...
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    Verismo – Arias from Fedora, Mefistofele, Adriana Lecouvreur, Iris, L'Africaine, Werther, La fanciulla del West, Manon Lescaut, Andrea Chénier. National...
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  • Giulietta, I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini) Ilia, Idomeneo (Mozart) Inès, L'Africaine (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Ismene, Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mozart) Isotta, Die...
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    Norway. Labatt's repertoire included: Vasco da Gama in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, the title role in Gounod's Faust, Eleazar in Halévy's La Juive, and...
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  • German composer for grand opera (Il crociato in Egitto, Les Huguenots, L'Africaine) Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart 1791 1844 Austrian composer, pianist, conductor...
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  • praise for his performance of the role of Vasco da Gama in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine at the Oper Frankfurt in 2018. He sang the title role in a new production...
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    Meyerbeer 415 A230 Illustrations de l'opéra L'Africaine pf 1865 Piano, arr. based on themes from the opera L'Africaine by Giacomo Meyerbeer 415/1 A230/1 Prière...
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    Metropolitan Opera Rigoletto 1981 - Oroveso in Norma 1988 - Nélusko in L'africaine 1991 - Iago in Act 3 of Otello in The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991 1992...
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  • Duca in Rigoletto, Wilhelm Meister in Mignon, Faust, Vasco Da Gama in L'Africaine, Rodolfo in La bohème with Hjördis Schymberg, Tonio in La fille du régiment...
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    the late 1970s, she began to tackle soprano roles, including Selika in L'Africaine, Judith in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Madame...
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  • Laurent Pelly. In 2018, he conducted a new production of Meyerbeer's L'Africaine – Vasco da Gama at the Frankfurt Opera. A review noted that he realized...
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    also had been prepared to tackle quite dramatic parts in operas like L'Africaine, Les Huguenots and even Aida. She never attempted to sing any verismo...
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    2019 "Crystal Lake" Luv Resval "Purification" Alkpote 2020 "Braquage à l'africaine pt.5" Sazamyzy, Kalash Criminel "Drill FR 4" Gazo "Anarchie" Zesau, Stavo...
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