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L'Africain
Giacomo Meyerbeer  (1791-1864)

This opera by Meyerbeer actually premiered a year after his death, in 1865.  This ia a story about the explorer Vasco Da Gama whose sea voyage takes him to the African coast where he falls in love with the beautiful and exotic Selika.  Sung in French.

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