Les Barbares

Les Barbares was a lyric tragedy in three acts with a score by Camille Saint-Saëns and a libretto by Victorien Sardou and P.-B. Gheusi. Marcel Jambon and Marcel Bailly created its sets; Charles Bianchini designed its costumes. Joseph Hansen was in charge of its choreography. It had its world premiere in Paris at the National Academy of Music on 20 October 1901. The curtain rises during the prologue to disclose the ancient theatre of Orange, where Scaurus outlines the basic situation from which…