Donizetti, who composed the opera at age 19, as a young man
Librettist
unknown
Language
Italian
Based on
Pygmalion by Rousseau
Premiere
13 October 1960 (1960-10-13)
Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo
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 [it]'s Pimmalione (1790), in turn based on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Pygmalion[1] and ultimately based on Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses.[2] Sografi's libretto was also used for an opera by Bonifacio Asioli (1796).[3]
This was Donizetti's first opera, written in six days between 25 September and 1 October 1816[4] when the composer was 19[1] and a student at the Bologna Academy, a position acquired for him with the help of his teacher in Bergamo, Johann Simon Mayr[5] and where his "gift for spontaneous composition flowered".[5] It has been noted that although the comedy is "musically slender, the score, nevertheless, reveals the fledgling composer's flair for melody".[6]
IlPigmalione (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...
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