Pygmalion
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Stage
- Pigmalion (opera)Pigmalion (opera)For the opera by Georg Benda see Pygmalion Pigmalion 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 Opéra in Paris. The libretto is by Ballot de Sovot. The work has generally been regarded as the best of Rameau's one-act pieces...
, a 1745 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau - Pygmalion (Rousseau), a melodrama by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Pygmalion (opera)Pygmalion (opera)Pygmalion is a monodrama in one act by composer Georg Benda with a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter. The opera's first performance was at the Ekhof Theater, the court theatre in Gotha, on September 20, 1779. Pygmalion was the fourth of the five theatrical collaborations of Benda and...
, a 1779 duodrama opera by Georg Anton Benda - Pygmalion, an 1808 opera by Karol KurpińskiKarol KurpinskiKarol Kazimierz Kurpiński was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue.Karol began his studies under his father, Marcin Kurpiński, an organist. At the age of 12, he became organist at a church in Sarnowa near Rawicz, where his uncle Karol Wański was a parish priest...
- PimmalionePimmalionePimmalione 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 of Antonio Simone Sografi's Italian translation of the text Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote for his scène lyrique Pygmalion...
, an 1809 opera by Luigi Cherubini - Il PigmalioneIl PigmalioneFor the opera by Cherubini, see PimmalioneIl Pigmalione is an opera in one act by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto of Antonio Simeone Sografi. It is Donizetti's first opera and was written between September and October 1816, when the composer was 19...
, an 1816 opera by Gaetano Donizetti - Pygmalion; or, The Statue FairPygmalion; or, The Statue FairPygmalion; or, The Statue Fair is a play by William Brough that was advertised as a musical burlesque. It was first produced in 1867, and revived in March 1872....
, an 1867 musical burlesque by William Brough - Pygmalion, ou La Statue de ChyprePygmalion, ou La Statue de ChyprePygmalion, ou La Statue de Chypre is a ballet in 4 Acts-6 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Prince Nikita Trubestkoi....
, an 1883 ballet with choreography by Marius Petipa - Pygmalion (play)Pygmalion (play)Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of...
, a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw
Film
- Pygmalion (1938 film)Pygmalion (1938 film)Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller....
, based on the George Bernard Shaw play - Pygmalion (1983 film)Pygmalion (1983 film)Pygmalion is a critically acclaimed 1983 film made-for-Showtime starring and produced by Margot Kidder as Eliza Doolittle and Peter O'Toole as Professor Henry Higgens. ....
, a 1983 television film starring Peter O'Toole and Margot Kidder - "Pygmalion", a 1963 episode of the television series Hallmark Hall of Fame
- "Pigmalion", a 2008 episode of the television series Back at the Barnyard
Music
- Pygmalion (album)Pygmalion (album)Pygmalion is the third and final studio album by the band Slowdive, released on February 6, 1995. A departure from their previous two albums, Pygmalion incorporated a more experimental sound tilted towards ambient electronic music, with sparse, atmospheric arrangements. All compositions were by...
, a dream pop album by Slowdive - A song by the darkwave group Lycia (band)Lycia (band)Lycia is a darkwave/gothic rock band that was formed in 1988, Tempe, Arizona, United States. The main personnel of the band are Mike VanPortfleet, Tara Vanflower, David Galas and . Although only achieving minor cult success, the band is notable for being one of the ground breaking groups in...
Other uses
- Pygmalion of TyrePygmalion of TyrePygmalion was king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC and a son of King Mattan I .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 , and,...
, a King of Tyre - Pygmalion (name)Pygmalion (name)Pygmalion is a Greek name. Pygmalion—or Pygmaion according to Hesychios of Alexandria—is probably a Cypriot form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god.In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with his statue....
, a given name - 96189 Pygmalion96189 Pygmalion96189 Pygmalion is an Amor-type near-Earth minor planet. It was discovered by Henri Debehogne at the La Silla Observatory in Chile on July 6, 1991. It is named after Pygmalion, a Greek mythological character who fell in love with a statue of his own creation.-External links:...
, a planet - Pygmalion (manga), a Japanese manga series by Shinji WadaShinji Wadawas a Japanese manga artist in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, and best known for the creation of the Sukeban Deka franchise. He has been the cover artist for and had stories published in the bishōjo lolicon manga anthology series Petit Apple Pie....
- Pygmalion, a work by Thomas WoolnerThomas WoolnerThomas Woolner RA was an English sculptor and poet who was one of the founder-members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was the only sculptor among the original members....
- Pygmalion, a character in Virgil's AeneidAeneidThe Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter...