High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! L'africaine (The African Woman) is a grand opera, the last work of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French libretto was written by Eugene Scribe. Meyerbeer's working title for the opera was 'Vasco da Gama', the hero. The events in the opera are, however, entirely fictitious. The opera was premiered by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier on 28 April 1865 in a performing edition undertaken by Francois-Joseph Fetis, as the composer had not prepared a final version at his death the previous year. It is Fetis who gave the work its present title; Meyerbeer had referred to it as 'Vasco da Gama'. In fact it is clear from the text, with its references to Hinduism, that the heroine Selika hails not from Africa, but from a region of, or island nearby, India - Madagascar has been suggested as a compromise reconciliation. Gabriela Cruz has published a detailed analysis of the historical context of the events of the opera and the opera setting itself.

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