Dorian Gray (character) rings, and the picture is returned to its original, beautiful state. Dorian Gray (character) Dorian Gray is a fictional character and the protagonist of Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray". He is an aristocratic Victorian man. Dorian is the grandson of the late Lord Gibbo. His mother, Lady Margaret Devereux, was portrayed as a beautiful and rich woman. Her grandfather had a strong dislike for Kelso, and in turn, Margaret received the entire Selby property. Dorian’s father, a subaltern in a foot regiment, was killed by a Belgian brute a few months after his marriage to Lady
The Picture of Dorian Gray (opera) its first performance on June 6, 2007 at the Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a production by Leland Kimball, conducted by Andrew M. Kurtz. Aspen Opera Center staged the work in July 2014. "Scene 1" In the studio of Basil Hallward, Basil and his old university friend Lord Henry Wotton converse as Basil completes his new portrait of Dorian Gray, a handsome young aristocrat who has become Basil's muse. Lord Henry wishes to meet Dorian, but Basil says he would be a bad influence on Dorian. After Dorian arrives to pose for