PYGMALION, A LYRICAL BALLET

Full Orchestra, 45 min

A lyrical ballet based on the artist that spurned the Goddess of Love for the woman he carved from stone. Pygmalion is the first in a trilogy of original musical works based on tales of love and transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphosis. 

Conducted by Cayenna Ponchione and produced independently by Santino DeAngelo in conjunction with a Presidential Initiative Grant from The Classical Association of the Atlantic States. 

World Premiere Performance October 20, 2010.

V. Scherzo Macabre – Excerpt

IV. Pygmalians Workshop – Excerpt

Pictured: Amanda Thomas (as Aphrodite) seduces William Matos (as Pygmalion).