caa a22 4500 388066563 CHVBK 20180307125134.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954586700005516 doi S0954586700005516 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954586700005516 Cruz Gabriela Laughing at History: the third act of Meyerbeer' L'Africaine [Elektronische Daten] [Gabriela Cruz] A mythical giant, a Malagasy slave, a song, an accomplished baritone, an outraged critic; these seemingly incompatible figures are bound together in the Paris premiere of Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine in 1865. They are the fundamental elements of my story of the opera's third act, a narrative web binding together early modern nautical history, epic poetry, grand-opera dramaturgy, and the nineteenth-century politics of operatic performance and listening in an exploration of how the opera's rather fictionalised account of Vasco da Gama's first sea voyage to India five centuries ago bears witness to the strength of the historicist project in grand opera. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Cambridge Opera Journal Cambridge University Press 11/1(1999-03), 31-76 0954-5867 11:1<31 1999 11 OPR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700005516 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700005516 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cruz Gabriela NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Opera Journal Cambridge University Press 11/1(1999-03), 31-76 0954-5867 11:1<31 1999 11 OPR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 117192333 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge