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Frédégonde

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Frédégonde is an 1895 drame lyrique in 5 acts by Camille Saint-Saëns to a libretto by Louis Gallet.[1]

Frédégonde is a completion of Ernest Guiraud's unfinished opera of the same name.[2]

Roles

  • Brunhilda, reine d'Austrasie (soprano)
  • Frédégonde, reine de Neustrie (mezzo-soprano)
  • Mérowig (tenor)
  • Hilpérick, roi de Neustrie, son père (baritone)
  • L'Evêque Prétextat (bass)
  • Fortunatus (tenor)
  • Landéric (bass)
  • Un serviteur (baritone)
  • Quatre seigneurs Goths (basses)

References

  1. ^ Sabina Teller Ratner (2002). Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921 : a thematic catalogue of his complete works. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198163207. OCLC 45582521.
  2. ^ IMSLP; Wikipedia article on Guiraud: "Frédégonde, drame lyrique (5 acts, Gallet, after A. Thierry: Les récits des temps mérovingiens), incomplete; Acts 1–3 orch. by Paul Dukas, Acts 4–5 & ballet completed by Camille Saint-Saëns; f.p. 18 December 1895, Opéra, Paris"