L’Africaine

About the show

In Lisbon, Vasco da Gama seeks support for an expedition and is imprisoned. Sélika, queen of a newly encountered land, saves him, but Vasco later joins Don Pédro’s voyage. Nélusko steers the ship into a storm and leads an attack on the Europeans, sparing Vasco. Sélika saves Vasco from execution and calls him her husband, but when he hears Inès’s voice, Sélika releases the lovers to return to Europe and takes her own life beneath a poisonous tree; Nélusko follows her.