Les barbares

Les barbares
tragédie lyrique by Camille Saint-Saëns
The composer in 1900, photographed by Pierre Petit
Librettist
LanguageFrench
Premiere
October 1901 (1901-10)

Les barbares is a 1901 tragédie lyrique in 3 acts by Camille Saint-Saëns to a libretto by Victorien Sardou and Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi. The opera was originally intended for the Roman theatre of Orange, in Provence, but instead premiered at the Paris Opéra Palais Garnier in October 1901.