he never should have mentioned the girl to Lord Henry, who retorts that Dorian will always tell him everything. Dorian then asks how Lord Henry would react at the idea that he murdered Basil Hallward. Lord Henry is dismissive and changes the topic to the mystery of Dorian's continual youth, comparing Dorian's life to his own lost youth. He asks Dorian to join him on a riding excursion the next day as he leaves. Dorian picks up a hand mirror, looks into it, then throws it down in disgust and smashes it under his feet. Scene 7 Alone in the attic, Dorian contemplates the degradation of his life and his evil influence on others. Thinking about the young girl with whom he broke off, he removes the cover from his portrait, hoping to find some diminution of his temporal corruption. To his dismay, he sees instead a new look of hypocrisy and corruption. Hoping to destroy the one visual proof of his evil, he stabs the portrait with the same knife used to kill Basil. A terrible scream is heard. The portrait has regained its original look of the young Dorian, whilst on the floor lies the horribly disfigured body of a wrinkled old man, covered in blood, with a knife in his heart. See also Adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray References External links Lowell Liebermann catalogue of compositions, entry on The Picture of Dorian Gray National Public Radio, At the Opera, 4 September 1999 Center City Opera page on The Picture of Dorian Gray English-language operas 1996 operas Operas based on works by Oscar Wilde Works based on The Picture of Dorian Gray Operas by Lowell Liebermann Music based on the Faust legend Operas based on novels