 Il Pigmalione

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 's "Pimmalione" (1790), in turn based on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Pygmalion" and ultimately based on Book X of Ovid's "Metamorphoses".