Pygmalion is a monodrama in one act by composer Georg Benda with a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter.

[1] Pygmalion was the fourth of the five theatrical collaborations of Benda and Gotter.

Gotter based his text on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 play Pygmalion.

Two of the three characters, Pygmalion and Galatea, are spoken roles; the other, Venus, is silently acted on stage.

Pygmalion, having renounced women, is in love with the statue he has made, his Galatea.