Henry VIII (opera)

Henry VIII
Henry VIII
Opera by Camille Saint-Saëns
	Setting for the premiere, evoking Westminster Hall
Librettist	Léonce Détroyat; Armand Silvestre;
Language	French
Based on	El cisma en Inglaterra; by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Premiere	5 March 1883; Académie Nationale de Musique, Paris

Henry VIII is an opera in four acts by Camille Saint-Saëns, from a libretto by Léonce Détroyat and Armand Silvestre, based on El cisma en Inglaterra (The Schism in England) (1627) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

The opera covers the period in Henry VIII's life when the king was attempting to divorce Queen Catherine of Aragon in favour of marrying Anne Boleyn, a move rejected by the Church.