George Bernard Shaw. Translated from English. E. Kalashnikova. A comedy in two acts. In "Metamorphoses" of Ovid is the story: Pygmalion fell in love with a statue that he himself had carved, and, ...

Linda: The myth of Pygmalion is told in Ovid's Metaphorphoses. Pygmalion was a gifted young sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. Pygmalion had strong misgivings about women ...

For so compact a drama (just four characters, including the Statue) the emotional stakes are surprisingly high, largely owing to an extraordinarily virtuosic sequence of arias and ariosos for ...