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The story of Pygmalion is the subject of Jean-Philippe Rameau's 1748 opera, Pigmalion. It was also the subject of Georg Benda's 1779 monodrama, Pygmalion. Ramler's poem Pygmalion was set to music as an aria by J.C.F.Bach in 1772, and as a cantata by Friedrich Benda in 1784. Pygmalion was the subject of Gaetano Donizetti's first opera, Il ...
Pygmalion is the most influential dramatic work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, other than his opera Le devin du village.Though now rarely performed, it was one of the first ever melodramas (that is, a play consisting of pantomime gestures and the spoken word, both with a musical accompaniment).
In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871.
The story is based on the myth of Pygmalion as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Rameau and Sauvot's version, the sculptor Pigmalion creates a beautiful statue to which he declares his love. In Rameau and Sauvot's version, the sculptor Pigmalion creates a beautiful statue to which he declares his love.
Pygmalion and Galatea, 1871 play by W. S. Gilbert; Galatea 2.2, 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers; Galatea is the name of the main flagship in the 1998 PC game Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War; Galatea is the name of the gynoid in the 1999 film Bicentennial Man. Galatea, a 2000 interactive fiction video game
Spin City followed the story of fictional New York City Mayor Randall Winston (Barry Bostwick) and his deputy mayor Mike Flaherty, (originally played by Fox). Locklear starred as Caitlin, a ...
Sabrina Carpenter surprised her fans with an appearance from Christina Aguilera on her L.A. tour stop and they sang two songs together.
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