Ludovic (opera)

{{Infobox opera

| name = Ludovic

| genre = Opéra comique

| composer = {{plainlist|

• Ferdinand Hérold {{nobold|(unfinished)}}
• Fromental Halévy {{nobold|(completed)}}}}

| image = Ferdinand Herold by Maurin.jpg

| image_upright =

| alt =

| caption = Ferdinand Hérold

| librettist = Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges

| language = French

| premiere_date = {{Start date|1833|05|16|df=y}}

| premiere_location = Salle de la Bourse,
Opéra-Comique, Paris

}}

Ludovic is an opéra comique in two acts to a French-language libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. The music, by Ferdinand Hérold, was left unfinished at his death, and the work was completed by his deputy at the Opéra-Comique, Fromental Halévy. Hérold had only written the overture, four numbers and the beginning of the act 1 finale.{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Apr/Herold_article.pdf|department=21. Ludovic|title=Ferdinand Hérold|last=Fuller|first=Nick|access-date=18 November 2020}}{{ill|Benoît Jouvin|fr|lt=Jouvin, Benoît}}. Hérold, sa vie et ses oeuvres, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_EBQUAAAAYAAJ/page/n207/mode/2up pp. 190–191] (Paris: Heugel, 1868)

The plot, elements of which were later reworked by Halévy and Saint-Georges in the opera Le val d'Andorre (1847), centres on misplaced alliance, love, forced conscription, flight, pardon, and marriage.

Chopin wrote a set of variations in B-flat major, Variations brillantes, Op. 12 (1833), on the act 1 aria "Je vends des scapulaires" (I sell scapulars).