How Long to Read Meyerbeer's L'Africaine

How Long Does it Take to Read Meyerbeer's L'Africaine?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 45 minutes to read Meyerbeer's L'Africaine by Robert Ignatius Letellier

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Vasco de Gama was the last collaboration between Giacomo Meyerbeer and Eugène Scribe, the famous playwright and librettist. The work had intermittently preoccupied them both since 1838, and it had become legendary as L’Africaine years before its completion. The first version of the opera became known as the Vecchia Africana of the long years of Meyerbeer’s anxious labours on this most troublesome of his operas An adoring public gave Meyerbeer a tumultuous posthumous accolade on the première of L'Africaine on 28 April 1865, a year after his death. This opera which involved Meyerbeer and Scribe’s creative energies for so long includes in one last and splendid achievement many of the elements that had hitherto featured in varying degrees in all their other joint creations. Both composer and librettist were men of immense imagination and genius. Between them, they created four works of great power and beauty that radically affected the history of opera. This study examines the origins and creation of the opera, its dramaturgy and musical style, the history of its astonishing reception around the world until the 1930s, its revival in more recent times. One of the special features of the book is the collection of iconography associated with the work, and its interpretation by many of the greatest singers of the Golden Age of opera. This imagery and many musical examples help to bring out the themes explored in this work more fully.

How long is Meyerbeer's L'Africaine?

Meyerbeer's L'Africaine by Robert Ignatius Letellier is 402 pages long, and a total of 101,304 words.

This makes it 136% the length of the average book. It also has 124% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Meyerbeer's L'Africaine Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 13 minutes to read Meyerbeer's L'Africaine aloud.

What Reading Level is Meyerbeer's L'Africaine?

Meyerbeer's L'Africaine is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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