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 ...

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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"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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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 ...