Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. With music by Mark Buller and a libretto by Charles Anthony Silvestri, The ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It’s not every day that a pop star assumes the heavy mantle of opera, ...

For his first foray in opera, Rufus Wainwright has “written a love song to opera, soaked in the perennial operatic themes of loss, betrayal, delusion and nostalgia, and saturated in the musical styles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...