Pygmalion (Rousseau)
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from Pygmalion (melodrama))
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Pygmalion was a short play ("scène lyrique") written in 1762 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau with music by Horace Coignet. It was first performed at the Hôtel de Ville, Lyon in 1770.
A novel feature of the work was the use of spoken monodrama with instrumental musical interludes. It is considered the first example of a melodrama.
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Pygmalion (Rousseau)" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
