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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).
Pigmalion, more commonly today Pygmalion, is an opera in the form of a one-act acte de ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 27 August 1748 at the Paris Opera. The libretto is by Ballot de Sauvot .
Pimmalione (Pygmalion) is an opera in one act by Luigi Cherubini, first performed at the Théâtre des Tuileries, Paris, on 30 November 1809.The libretto is an adaptation by Stefano Vestris [1] of Antonio Simone Sografi's Italian translation of the text Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote for his scène lyrique Pygmalion (1770).
Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/ p ɪ ɡ ˈ m eɪ l i ən /; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a ...
The Pygmalion myth had long been popular with theatrical illusionists. [3] Pygmalion and Galatea was the first film adaptation of the story; many others followed it in the silent era and beyond. [4] Méliès and Jehanne d'Alcy play the roles of Pygmalion and Galatea in the film. [5]
Pygmalion and Galatea is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet. It represents the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea as told by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. The figures Pygmalion and Galatea are shown with Cupid, the god of desire. Girodet began the work in 1813, but it took him six years to complete. [1] [1]
Il Pigmalione (Pygmalion) is a scena lirica (lyric scene or opera) in one act by Gaetano Donizetti.The librettist is unknown, but it is known that the libretto was based on one by Antonio Simeone Sografi for Giovanni Battista Cimador [] 's Pimmalione (1790), in turn based on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Pygmalion [1] and ultimately based on Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses. [2]
a concise summary. In French, when talking about a school course, it means an abridged book about the matter. Literally, précis means precise, accurate. première refers to the first performance of a play, a film, etc. "La première" is used in same way in French, but it more generally means "the first". raisonneur