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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On a floor in 1970s Paris, a fallen opera star ...

Originally intended as a piece for the New York Metropolitan Opera but later dropped due to a dispute over the language of the libretto, Rufus Wainwright’s first full length opera Prima Donna makes ...

"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 ...

The long wait for Anna Netrebko to sing again in America is over, ended by a Palm Beach Opera gala on February 3 at The Breakers Palm Beach, the historic luxury hotel. As is well known, the Russian ...

Opera and punk rock — two great tastes that taste great together. In doubt? Then you haven’t experienced Sybil Vane’s Weird Opera. Vane is the alter ego of Molly Zackary, who hosted a riot-grrrl radio ...

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 ...