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 ...

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 ...

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 ...