The opera was premiered the following year by the Paris Opéra in a shortened and reordered version made by François-Joseph Fétis, who restored the earlier, better known title, "L'Africaine". The Fétis version was published and was used for subsequent performances until 2013, when some productions and recordings began using Meyerbeer's preferred title, "Vasco de Gama", for performing versions with revisions based on the manuscript score, and in 2018 the music publisher Ricordi issued a critical edition of Meyerbeer's manuscript full score under that title.