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Gerald Arbuthnot receives a promotion from Lord Illingworth, a worldly politician who has a sordid history of women, one of whom is Gerald's widowed mother. When their connection is revealed, the young man questions his past, present and future aspirations.
A Woman of No Importance opens with a high-class party featuring a group of society's most illustrious citizens. In the midst of the event, Gerald Arbuthnot enters and announces his new position...
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This is the tragedy, originally written in French but translated into English by Wilde himself, upon which Richard Strauss based his sensational opera. It has inspired much music and dance, among them the symphonic poem by American composer Henry Hadley and incidental music by the Russian Glazunov.
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