Gillette de Narbonne is an opéra comique in three acts, with music by Edmond Audran and words by Alfred Duru and Henri Chivot. It is based on a fabliau from The Decameron and depicts a rejected bride posing as another woman to deceive her husband into consummating their marriage.
Poster by Paul Maurou for the original production.
Louis Morlet as Roger
Marie Montbazon as the disguised Gillette
Achille Edmond Audran was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas.
Photo of Audran by Pierre Petit, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Poster for the 1884 production of Le grand mogol in Paris.
Sheet music for the gavotte from La cigale et la fourmi