“Rufus Wainwright: Prima Donna,” a journeyman docu about the singer-songwriter’s first foray into opera, both suffers and benefits from the flamboyantly gay egocentrism that marks all the musician’s ...

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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It’s not every day that a pop star assumes the heavy mantle of opera, ...

He has written an opera and is working on a second, fulfilling the ambition of a lifelong love affair with the art form. And there’s his astonishing verbatim reconstruction of Judy Garland’s 1961 ...

Why did Rufus Wainwright write an opera? This and many other questions that might arise in connection with Prima Donna, the Canadian-American singer-songwriter-star's widely celebrated opera-debut, ...

Rufus Wainwright is currently putting the final touches on Prima Donna, a French opera the pop star wrote himself. Wainwright’s opus will premiere globally at the Manchester International Festival in ...

BROOKLYN — Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna took an unusual path to its United States premiere, switching companies and sopranos. Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and then dropped four years ago ...

VERBIER, Switzerland — Rufus Wainwright’s eyes filled with tears. He stood quietly, one hand marking time, as the rich voice of the baritone Thomas Hampson filled a rehearsal room looking out onto ...

Is there anyone among us who doesn’t want to see Rufus Wainwright succeed? Sure, most would probably rather see him succeed at making another album like Poses than replicating famous Judy Garland ...

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"Prima Donna" has rich orchestral textures, but too many of them sound borrowed. The meandering swoon of Rufus Wainwright’s voice is instantly recognizable, but it’s the idiosyncratic handling of both ...

Perhaps it's unkind to mock; as Adam Sweeting told us in his interview with Wainwright, the same, consummate prima donna sang it at the funeral of the composer's mother, Kate McGarrigle. Yet as ...