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Afternoon Concert ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 4 Meyerbeer's L'Africaine at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice

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  • Act 1 of L’Africaine with Jessica Pratt as Inès and Anna Bordignon as her confidante Anna
  • Inès (Jessica Pratt) visits her beloved Vasco de Gama (Gregory Kunde) in prison
  • Sélika (Veronica Simeoni), the imprisoned Queen of an exotic land, also loves Vasco de Gama (Gregory Kunde)
  • Slave Nélusko (Angelo Veccia) wants the Europeans on the ship to the New World killed
  • Vasco da Gama (Gregory Kunde) has to weather a storm on the way to the New World
  • Queen Sélika (Veronica Simeoni) is presented in her whole glory on her island
  • Sélika (Veronica Simeoni) saves Vasco da Gama (Gregory Kuned) by saying he was her husband
  • Sélika (Veronica Simeoni) and da Gama (Gregory Kunde) share a brief moment before he returns to his love Inès

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  • Afternoon Concert—ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 4

    4/4 Acts 4 and 5 of Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine. Plus ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SSO in Strauss and Tchaikovsky.

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