Pygmalion, ou La Statue de Chypre

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Pygmalion, ou La Statue de Chypre (a.k.a. Pygmalion, or The Cyprus Statue) is a ballet in 4 Acts and 6 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa^[1] and music by Prince Nikita Trubestkoi.

First presented by the Imperial Ballet on 23 December [O.S. 11 December] 1883 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was revived in 1895, featuring Pierina Legnani.^[1]

v t e The ballets and revivals of Marius Petipa in Russia
1847–59	Paquita (1847, 1881) Le Diable amoureux (as "Satanella") (1848) Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid* (1849) Giselle (1850, 1884, 1899, 1903) The Star of Granada (1855) The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly (1857) Le Corsaire (1858, 1863, 1868, 1885, 1899) A Marriage During the Regency* (1858) The Parisian Market (1859, *1861)
1860–79	The Blue Dahlia (1860, 1875) Terpsichore* (1861) The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862, 1885, 1898) The Beauty of Lebanon (1863) The Traveling Dancer (1864) Florida (1866) Titania (1866) Faust (1867) The Benevolent Cupid* (1868) The Slave (1868) Le Roi Candaule (1868, 1891, 1903) Don Quixote (1869, 1871) Trilby* (1870) Catarina (1870) The Two Stars* (1871) Camargo (1872) Le Papillon (1874) Ondine (as "The Naiad and the Fisherman")* (1874, 1892) The Bandits (1875) The Adventures of Peleus (1876, 1897) La Bayadère* (1877, 1900) Roxana* (1878) Ariadne (1878) The Daughter of the Snows (1879) Frizak the Barber (1879) Mlada (1879, *1896)
1880–99	La Fille du Danube (1880) Zoraiya* (1881) La Vivandière (as "Markitenka") (1881) Pâquerette* (1882) The Night and the Day* (1883) Pygmalion (1883) Coppélia (1884) Giselle* (1884, 1899, 1903) Le Diable à Quatre (as "The Willful Wife")* (1885) La Fille Mal Gardée* (1885) The Magic Pills* (1886) The King's Command (1886, 1887, 1900) La Esmeralda (1886, 1899) The Sacrifices to Cupid (1886) * Fiametta (1887) The Vestal (1888) The Talisman (1889, 1895) The Enchanted Forest* (1889) The Caprices of a Butterfly* (1889, 1895) The Sleeping Beauty* (1890) Nénuphar (1890) Kalkabrino (1891) A Fairy Tale (1891) La Sylphide (1892) The Nutcracker* (1892) Cinderella (1893) The Awakening of Flora (1894) Swan Lake (1895) The Little Humpbacked Horse (as "The Tsar Maiden")* (1895) The Cavalry Halt* (1896) The Pearl (1896) Bluebeard (1896) Raymonda (1898)
1900–03	Les Ruses d'Amour or The Trial of Damis (1900) The Seasons (1900) Harlequinade (1900) The Heart of the Marquis (1902) The Magic Mirror (1903) The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly (never presented)
an asterisk * indicates a revival.

v t e Pygmalion from Ovid's Metamorphoses
Characters	Galatea Propoetides
Opera	Pigmalion (1748) Pygmalion (1779) Pimmalione (1809) Il Pigmalione (1816) Die schöne Galathée (1863 operetta)
Ballet	Pygmalion, ou La Statue de Chypre
Play	Pygmalion (1762) Pygmalion and Galatea (1871) Pygmalion (1912)
Musical	Pygmalion; or, The Statue Fair (1872) Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed (1883) One Touch of Venus (1943) My Fair Lady (1956)
Video game	Galatea
Art	Pygmalion and the Image series Pygmalion and Galatea (Gérôme)
Television	"If I Had a Hammer" A Mulher Invisível
Literature	Pintosmalto Mr Simigdáli Fall Out Toy Works
Film	Pygmalion and Galatea (1898) The Tinted Venus (1921) Pygmalion (1938) One Touch of Venus (1948) My Fair Lady (1964) Mannequin (1987) Ruby Sparks (2012)
Related	96189 Pygmalion Agalmatophilia Gynoid Comic Potential (1998)

References

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^ ^a ^b Hochman, Jerry (29 June 2019). "Eifman Ballet: Impossible Dreams". CriticalDance. Retrieved 8 November 2024.

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