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).