Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 LAfricaine: Meyerbeer - San Francisco Opera (2000) Rating: Starring: Michael Devlin, Justino Diaz, Placido Domingo, Philip Skinner, Ruth Ann Swenson, Shirley Verrett Director: Brian Large, Lotfi Mansouri Category: Classics, Classics Studio: Image Ent. Subtitles: English Length: 191 mins     The great Placido Domingo stars as the passionate explorer Vasco de Gama in Lotfi Mansouri's colorfully exotic, critically acclaimed production for the San Francisco Opera. Enormously popular in the 19th century, L'Africaine is set in the days of the great explorations. Shipwrecked on the African coast, de Gama returns to Portugal with two captives and falls in love with one of them, a beautiful East Indian queen (the spectacular Shirley Verrett). However, their relationship is threatened by the re-emergence of de Gama's former love, Ines, when a new expedition launched by the explorer's rival is shipwrecked.