Comments on: Oscar Wilde Saved from Adoring Fans in Paris

By: Gary Lee Kraut

Gary Lee Kraut — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:01:04 +0000

Funny! But he probably got fired for that.
Putting a cemetery on your bucket list is playing with fire… but worth the risk.
Let me know when you plan your visit.
Gary

By: Franka

Franka — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:24:16 +0000

A while ago here in the states a school janitor was frustrated with all the girls kissing the bathroom mirror time after time. Her solution: WHILE THE GIRLS WERE WATCHING she used toilet water to wash the mirrors. Problem solved for THAT school year.
T’would be a bit more tricky for Wilde’s monument there. Variation on a theme perhaps.
The Père Lachaise Cemetery is on my bucket list–to visit only!

By: Gary Lee Kraut

Gary Lee Kraut — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:49:36 +0000

Thanks for your beautiful testimony, Elizabeth.

By: Elizabeth Esris

Elizabeth Esris — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:18:08 +0000

Elegy For A Prince is an opera freely adapted from Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince. I wrote the libretto for which composer Sergio Cervetti wrote a glorious score. Part of the libretto references sections of De Profundis. Both Cervetti and I loved Wilde’s fairy tale when we were children and both of us were inspired by Wilde’s discourse on love found within de Profundis. Before Elegy For A Prince was to be premiered in excerpts by New York City Opera, I took lilies to place on Oscar Wilde’s grave; it had a note written on a rag paper card which could deteriorate in the rain that read, “on vous adore.” My husband and I had a lovely moment there until a “fan” of Wilde’s came by and proceeded to pull herself all over the gorgeous monument until she found a place to plant her red lips. I never saw her pause before the tomb or speak of Wilde in any way to her companion. The kiss was the thing. I hope this new effort works. How sad. I recall when I first saw the Mona Lisa—it was not enshrined in plastic.
On the way to Wilde’s grave, we left flowers for Chopin and Piaf—what fine company!