This weekend, Rufus Wainwright premiered his French-language opera, Prima Donna, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, to a packed crowd that included Yoko Ono and Anjelica Houston. Which begs the ...

"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 ...

Houston Grand Opera’s award-winning community collaboration and education initiative, HGOco, presents The Puffed-Up Prima Donna. The talented artists of HGOco’s touring Opera to Go! program will ...

Though Prima Donna will be the first opera Rufus has completed, it is not, in fact, his first attempt at the form. “Iwrote one act of an opera when I was about 16 years old,” he says. “Itwas based on ...

Such is the extent of Rufus Wainwright‘s reputation that I suspect most people will have decided whether or not to see his new opera (which premiered in Manchester last year) before they have even ...

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Once upon a time a prima donna was opera’s indispensable lady, an unearthly creature who fed on acclaim, dressed in kudos and walked a path strewn with money, jewels and lovers. For her the real world ...

That was largely due to the dignity of a fine production team, very different from the one behind last year's Manchester world premiere, and a top-notch quartet of singers led by a great if underrated ...