Frédégonde
| Frédégonde | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Ernest Guiraud, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Paul Dukas | |
Act 1 set design, a vast hall in a Gallo-Roman bath house, by Philippe Chaperon and his son Émile for the 1895 premiere | |
| Librettist | Louis Gallet |
| Language | French |
| Based on | Récits des temps mérovingiens by Augustin Thierry |
| Premiere | |
Frédégonde is an 1895 French opera (drame lyrique) in five acts with music by Ernest Guiraud, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Paul Dukas and a libretto by Louis Gallet based on Augustin Thierry's Récits des temps mérovingiens [Tales from the time of the Merovingians] (1840).
The opera was incomplete upon Guiraud's death in 1892. He had only composed the first three acts (in short score), and these were subsequently fully orchestrated by Paul Dukas. The music for the fourth and fifth acts and the ballet in the third act was composed by Saint-Saens.