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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...