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Context articles: Déjanire
List of compositions by Camille Saint-Saëns
Oratorio de Noël
Piano Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)
Franz Ferenczy
Hélène (opera)
Giacomo Puccini
Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns)
Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)
Camille Saint-Saëns

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").
Below is a list of compositions by Camille Saint-Saëns.
 The works are categorized by genre, opus number, Ratner catalogue number, date of composition and titles.
 R numbers are from "Camille Saint-Saëns 1835–1921: A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works" by Sabina Teller Ratner (Oxford University Press).
The Oratorio de Noël, Opus 12, by Camille Saint-Saëns, also known as Christmas Oratorio, is a cantata-like work scored for soloists, chorus, strings and harp.
 While an organist at Madeleine, Saint-Saëns wrote the oratorio in less than a fortnight, completing it ten days before its premiere on Christmas 1858.
 The vocal score of this oratorio was prepared later by the composer and organist Eugene Gigout, a colleague of Saint-Saëns.
The Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, Op.
 29 by Camille Saint-Saëns, was composed in 1869.
 The concerto is written in 3 movements.
 When the concerto was first performed by Saint-Saëns himself at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1869 it was not well received, possibly because of its harmonic experimentation.
 Saint-Saëns's third concerto is not as often performed as his famous second concerto, or the fourth or fifth concertos, but it is still an important addition to the piano concerto repertoire.
 It was dedicated to Élie-Miriam Delaborde, a pianist who is believed to have been the natural son of Charles-Valentin Alkan.
Franz Ferenczy (also Franz Friedemann) (1835 – 27 February 1881, Weimar) was a nineteenth-century German tenor who had a prolific opera career in Europe between 1859-1880.
 Possessing a powerful voice with a wide vocal range, Ferenczy particularly excelled in the operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer and Richard Wagner.
 He is best remembered today for originating the role of Samson in the world premiere of Camille Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalila" in 1877.
 His brother, José Ferenczy (1852–1908), was also a successful operatic tenor.
Hélène is a poème lyrique or opera in one act by composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
 It is the first opera for which Saint-Saëns wrote his own French libretto, which is based on the classic story of Helen of Troy and Paris from Greek mythology.
 The opera premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Monaco on 18 February 1904.
 Moderately successful, the opera enjoyed a handful of revivals up through 1919, after which it fell out of the performance repertoire.
 The work was resurrected in 2008 for its world premiere recording by the Australian music label "Melba".
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (] ; 22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op.
 33 in 1872, when the composer was 37 years old.
 He wrote this work for the Belgian cellist, viola de gamba player and instrument maker Auguste Tolbecque.
 Tolbecque was part of a distinguished family of musicians closely associated with the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, France’s leading concert society.
 The concerto was first performed on January 19, 1873 at the Paris conservatoire concert with Tolbecque as soloist.
 This was considered a mark of Saint-Saëns' growing acceptance by the French musical establishment.
The Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.
 22 by Camille Saint-Saëns, was composed in 1868 and is probably Saint-Saëns' most popular piano concerto.
 It was dedicated to Madame A. de Villers née de Haber.
 At the première, the composer was the soloist and Anton Rubinstein conducted the orchestra.
 Saint-Saëns wrote the concerto in three weeks, and had very little time to prepare for the première; consequently, the piece was not initially successful.
 The capricious changes in style provoked Zygmunt Stojowski to quip that it "begins with Bach and ends with Offenbach."
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (] , traditionally pronounced ] in French; (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.
 His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), "Danse macabre" (1874), the opera "Samson and Delilah" (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and "The Carnival of the Animals" (1886).