Portal:Opera/Selected picture/15
Credit: Napoleon Sarony
An 1882 portrait of Oscar Wilde, the Irish playwright, poet and author. In 1905 his play Salomé was adapted into operas by two different composers – Salome by Richard Strauss and Salomé by Antoine Mariotte. Wilde himself is the protagonist of Theodore Morrison's opera Oscar which premiered in 2013 at Santa Fe Opera with David Daniels in the title role.