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Pimmalione ("Pygmalion") is an opera in one act by Luigi Cherubini, first performed at the Théâtre des Tuileries, Paris on 30 November 1809. The libretto is an adaptation by Stefano Vestris of Antonio Simone Sografi's Italian translation of the text Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote for his "scène lyrique" "Pygmalion" (1770). It is based on the Classical legend of the sculptor Pygmalion. 
"Pimmalione" was specially commissioned by the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte to show off the talents of two of
which the Italian singer emerged triumphant.
In 1806 Grassini returned to Paris together with her former master Crescentini, where she was appointed first chamber virtuosa of Emperor Napoleon. At the Tuileries Palace Grassini was on stage as the protagonist in the première of Paër’s "La Didone" and in Cherubini’s "Pimmalione".
After settling in Rome during Napoleon’s exile on the Isle of Elba, she went back to Paris during the Hundred Days. Having stayed there after the Restoration, she also became the lover of Wellington