L'africaine: San Francisco Opera House (Arena) (UK-import)
Placido Domingo stars as Vasco da Gama in Giacomo Meyerbeer's spectacular grand opera, first performed at the Paris Opera in 1865. In the great explorations, da Gama returns to a Portugal seething with political intrigue and hypocrisy, armed with two exotic slaves he has brought back with him from Africa. Shirley Verret co stars.