Shipboard scene from Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine
A shipboard scene from Giacomo Meyerbeer's last opera L'Africaine. Act 3 scene 6 is depicted here: while a storm rages, the warriors of Selika, Queen of Madagascar, board Don Pedro's ship, killing the Portuguese crew, though Vasco de Gama survives for the time being
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Picture No
10018024
Media ID
48868777
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Engraving by an unnamed artist in L'Illustration', 1865
Date
first performed 1865
