Rufus Wainwright

...in, you will enjoy it. Wainwright's melody-rich score, competently presented by the Opera North orchestra under Pierre-Andre Valade, is far richer, harmonically and orchestrally, than one might have expected. Although there are too many...

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...the opera house. " Her words convey resignation as powerfully as they do pleasure. On a blustery day in Leeds, Rufus Wainwright looks equally conflicted. In front of the Canadian-American songwriter, the orchestra of Opera North prepare for...

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...haul by the Manchester-based British cycling team. 3 Prima Donna The Palace Theatre will host the world premiere of songwriter Rufus Wainwright's first opera. A portrait of a fading opera singer set in Seventies Paris, Prima Donna...

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...days to install. Wainwright explained how, with this production, Opera North had taken the show to whole new level: "I wrote this opera to take place in one room in one day and now it's an extremely layered dramatic show. "I wanted to...

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...the collaboration did not work out as originally planned. Wainwright confirmed that the premiere would still be held in July 2009 at the Manchester International Festival in England. In October 2008, it was announced that the work would be...

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...on the planet". The first thing to point out is that this is no mere rock star's vanity project, though few stars are quite as vain as Wainwright, who swans to his seat in the stalls sporting a top hat and silver-topped cane, having...

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