Elton John once famously said Rufus Wainwright was the best songwriter alive. But that’s not what many opera critics thought after Wainwright’s first-ever opera Prima Donna, budgeted at £2-million, ...

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Aiming to be a documentary about a pop star (Rufus Wainwright) who composes and stages a classical opera, "Prima Donna," which airs Monday night on the Sundance Channel, instead winds up being a ...

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 ...

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In retrospect, it was inevitable that Rufus Wainwright would turn his hand to opera. After all, his work long ago graduated from winsome folk to fully blown baroque masterpieces such as Want One and ...

Prima Donna entered public consciousness two summers ago as the project Rufus Wainwright would not undertake for the Metropolitan Opera because of a dispute over the language of the libretto. Prima ...

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I won't broach the subject of whether Rufus Wainwright's opera Prima Donna is autobiographical, because I can't speak with certainty. Its creation was tangled up with the death of Wainwright's mother, ...