page_title: Déjanire
hierarchical_section_title: Déjanire
caption_attribution_description: portrait of French opera singer Lucien Muratore (1876-1954) as Hercules in "Déjanire" by Camille Saint-Saëns
context_page_description: Déjanire is an opera in 4 acts composed by Camille Saint-Saëns to a libretto in French by Louis Gallet and Camille Saint-Saëns. The last of Saint-Saëns' operas, it premiered on 14 March 1911 at the Théâtre de Monte-Carlo. One of the opera's central characters, Hercule, had been the subject of two earlier symphonic poems by Saint-Saëns – Le Rouet d'Omphale and La Jeunesse d'Hercule. The story is based on The Trachiniae by Sophocles.
context_section_description: Déjanire  is an opera (tragédie lyrique) in 4 acts composed by Camille Saint-Saëns to a libretto in French by Louis Gallet and Camille Saint-Saëns. The last of Saint-Saëns' operas, it premiered on 14 March 1911 at the Théâtre de Monte-Carlo. One of the opera's central characters, Hercule (Hercules), had been the subject of two earlier symphonic poems by Saint-Saëns – Le Rouet d'Omphale (1872) and La Jeunesse d'Hercule (1877). The story is based on The Trachiniae by Sophocles (also the source for Handel's opera Hercules).
caption: Lucien Muratore as Hercules in the premiere production
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