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15 Jahre AHM
AHM
L’AFRICAINE
Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
L’AFRICAINE
1988

Soloists: 
Ruth Ann Swenson, Shirley Verrett, Plácido Domingo
Orchestra, Chorus: 
Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera House
Conductor: 
Maurizio Arena
Director: 
Lotfi Mansouri

Plácido Domingo, as Vasco da Gama, and Shirley Verrett, as the African queen whom he has enslaved, star in Meyerbeer's spectacular grand opera, in a colourfully exotic production by Lotfi Mansouri, under the sensitive musical direction of Maurizio Arena. The visual splendour of Wolfram Skalicki's designs matches the vocal distinction of the cast: ''Domingo was the honeyed, ringing Gama of everyone's expectations, Verrett as lustrous and inward a Sélika as ever, Ruth Ann Swenson a gem-like Inès'' (Opera Magazine).
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