Opera has always been dominated by divas. Originally a neutral term (from the Latin for "goddess") for female singers, it now has more to do with backstage than onstage presence. Kathleen Battle, an ...

There’s always been hints of the operatic in the music of Rufus Wainwright—the emotive crooning, the vocal gymnastics on his most epic tunes and, of course, the penchant for the melodramatic. But ...

It takes a special breed of rock musician to compose an opera that you’d willingly sit through without having first been bound and gagged. Damon Albarn managed it with ‘Monkey: Journey To The West’.

What's Rufus Wainwright doing writing an opera? That's the question that's been hanging in the air for the last four years. In 2006 the Metropolitan Opera surprisingly commissioned the Canadian singer ...

That was largely due to the dignity of a fine production team, very different from the one behind last year's Manchester world premiere, and a top-notch quartet of singers led by a great if underrated ...

Opera Prima is my first look at the world that becomes a mirror in which to recognize myself." Ready to press play on ' Opera Prima ' on your favorite screen? Tracking down a streaming service to buy, ...

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 ...