August 30, 2008
The Met's Fat Lady Sings for Wainwright
The piece that New York's Metropolitan Opera commissioned Rufus Wainwright to compose will not be performed there after all. A difficult Wainwright insisted his Prima Donna, about a day in the life of an opera singer, be performed in French, even though the Met requires all new works to be in English to appeal to a wider audience. On top of that, Wainwright wanted his opera staged NOW, and not in the 2014 season for which the Met had scheduled it. So Wainwright has taken his opera back and shopped it elsewhere. If you want to see Prima Donna, you'll have to go to England's Manchester International Festival next summer. If you want to see a prima donna, you can probably find Wainwright in West Hollywood right now. (LA Times; photo: Getty)
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