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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 ...
Falconet's 1763 sculpture Pygmalion and Galatea (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore). Galatea (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white") [1] is the post-antiquity name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory alabaster by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came to life in Greek mythology.
Pygmalion (Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmaliōn; Latin: Pygmalion) was king of Tyre [1] from 831 to 785 BCE and a son of King Mattan I (840–832 BC).. During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus, Sardinia (see Nora Stone ...
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 .
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 eight years to complete. [1]
'Pygmalion' “Pygmalion," a classic tale that weaves the original myth with an empowering opera reimagined through the lens of a woman’s perspective in the contemporary world, is part of the ...
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).
Luigi Mangione’s family is “beloved’’ Baltimore royalty, fueled by a real-estate empire and history of contributing millions of dollars to healthcare — the very industry that allegedly ...