OSCAR WILDE “Sayings and Objections”
The performance is based on Oscar Wilde’s life and his famous sayings and objections. However, Oscar Wilde – a man that lived only for 44 years (1856-1909) – had the experience of profound and sensitive feelings and exciting thoughts, mainly because of his homosexuality. These feelings and thoughts are evergreen.
In an imaginary living-room, the actress Magda Mavrogianni and the contralto Irini Karagianni (both as Oscar Wilde) and Wilde’s friends played by the soprano Mina Polichronou, the soprano Maira Milolidaki and the pianist Titos Gouvelis, all these characters will take us from nowadays to the Victorian Era through the music of Parcel, Edgar, Poulenc, Satie, opera Massenet, Gouno, Bellini Rossini and Donizetti.
Wilde’s admirers and even his critics, they all accept his importance as a social and cultural phenomenon. He was wittily eccentric and provocative and he made his confrontation against the bourgeois reason obvious.
So, when classical music is connected with a person like Oscar Wilde (a person that turned witticism to an artistic state, then music performance is garnished with a new air of charm and humor.
