Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. With music by Mark Buller and a libretto by Charles Anthony Silvestri, 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 ...

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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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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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...