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Oscar Wilde

Opera Album Review, Oscar Wilde, Part 3 –A Spiffy “The Importance of Being Earnest”

Odyssey Opera revels in the glittering wit and touching moments of this full-length chamber opera by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, better known for his Hollywood film scores and some wonderful guitar pieces.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Odyssey Opera, Oscar Wilde, Ralph P. Locke, The importance of Being Earnest

Book Review: Oscar Wilde Fights the Dying of the Light

Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years, Tom Filbin

Opera Preview: “The Picture of Dorian Gray” — The Opera

“I have always been a fan of horror movies, and I’m sure that was part of the attraction to me.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Preview Tagged: Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil-Rose, Lowell Liebermann, Odyssey Opera, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Fuse Theater Review: Bridge Rep’s “Salomé”—Never a Dull Moment

Bridge Rep Theater director Olivia D’Ambrosio has not taken message-mongering to heart in this lively production of a rarely produced play.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bridge Repertory Theater, Olivia D'Ambrosio, Oscar Wilde, Salome

Fuse Book Review: “Wilde in America” — Not Wild Enough?

What Oscar Wilde was peddling in America was beauty. Art for art’s sake. Gorgeous flowers. Ravishing colors.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: America, celebrity, David M Friedman, Oscar Wilde, Wilde in America

Book Review: Matinee Modernism — Celebrity and Academia Converge and It Isn’t Pretty

What could have been a readable, informative, pleasurable book that would, much like Woody Allen’s recent film MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, enhance our experience of some of the modernist figures we adore wallows too often in brain-dead literary theory.

By: Christopher M. Ohge Filed Under: Books Tagged: Charlie Chaplin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, John Dos Passos, Jonathan Goldman, Literary criticism, Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity, Oscar Wilde

Book Review — A Wilde Child Restored: Dorian Gray Uncensored

Editor Nicholas Frankel is right to argue that familiarity with Oscar Wilde’s original manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray deepens its vision, suggesting that the 1891 novel is a far less morally reassuring tale than readers have thought. The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde. Edited by Nicholas Frankel. […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books Tagged: fiction, Harvard University Press, homosexuality, Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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