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 ...

After his opera's premiere at the Manchester festival last summer, Rufus Wainwright made no secret of his dislike of the original production. For its London debut a new director, Tim Albery, has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...