<P> In 1963, Erik Chisholm composed an opera from the play, using Wilde's text as the libretto . </P> <P> In 1964, Gerd Natschinski composed the musical Mein Freund Bunbury based on the play, 1964 premiered at Metropol Theater Berlin . </P> <P> According to a study by Robert Tanitch, by 2002 there had been least eight adaptations of the play as a musical, though "never with conspicuous success". The earliest such version was a 1927 American show entitled Oh Earnest . The journalist Mark Bostridge comments, "The libretto of a 1957 musical adaptation, Half in Earnest, deposited in the British Library, is scarcely more encouraging . The curtain rises on Algy strumming away at the piano, singing' I can play Chopsticks, Lane' . Other songs include' A Bunburying I Must Go' ." </P> <P> Gerald Barry created the 2011 opera, The Importance of Being Earnest, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Barbican Centre in London . It was premiered in Los Angeles in 2011 . The stage premiere was given by the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy, France in 2013 . </P>

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