Prima Donna

...the first ring. Rufus Wainwright stumbled through "That's Entertainment" as a prelude to a gooey excerpt from his faux-French opera, Prima Donna. Samuel Ramey wobbled through a scene from Susannah. Marc Kudisch strangled on the Carousel...

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...Entertainment" at the concert. Silvery-voiced soprano Amy Burton also sang "Les feux d'artifice t'appellant," the final aria from Prima Donna, Mr. Wainwright's first opera, which had its world premiere this summer in Manchester but...

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...a party." While he scales back his pop compositions, Wainwright is also gearing up for the North American premiere of his debut opera, Prima Donna, an experience he describes as "seminal in my development as an artist." ELLIS...

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...Moore, The Paramount...our fanciest rooms save Benaroya and McCaw Hall. Speaking of, now that he's written an opera and had it staged-"Prima Donna" was put on last July in Manchester-why not start a relationship with Seattle Opera? "Once you...

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...opera has led him to write one of his own. Wainwright composed the score and wrote French lyrics for his debut classical opera, "Prima Donna," which will have its North American premiere in June 2010 at the Luminato arts festival in...

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...Ellington wrote large-scale compositions. The jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis composed orchestral works and Rufus Wainwright had his opera, Prima Donna, premiered in Manchester this year. I would much rather hear pop musicians trying to be...

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...Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, a devoted fan of Judy Garland and recently an opera composer. (His first, the French-language "Prima Donna," premiered this summer.) His next release is a live album, "Milwaukee at Last!!!," which...

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...miscegenation, as both Manchester's laudably mixed 2009 programme and this debut opera attest. Prima Donna may not threaten Verdi's status, but it does confirm Wainwright - overstretched though he is - as a bold experimentalist, yet to...

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...Rufus Wainwright says opera saved his life more than once, and he has begun to pay it back with his first full-length work "Prima Donna". With trademark flamboyance, a bearded Wainwright dressed up as 19th century composer...

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