There Goes The Fear (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
When you’ve toured with Sheryl Crow, you’ve got to be good. When Rufus Wainwright has handpicked you to duet with, you’ve got to be special. And when you were once a member of Antony & The Johnsons, you’re truly standalone. Meet Joan Wasser, leading lady of American punk/soul band, Joan As Police Woman. We know very little [...]
Nag on the Lake (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
New York's Metropolitan Opera has turned down an opera by singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright (a bit of a diva himself) because he wrote it in French and refused to translate the libretto into English. That's too bad because the story sounds like it would make great opera. Prima Donna is about a day in the life of an ageing opera star in 1970s Paris. I suppose they won't be performing Verdi or Puccini...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Page Six: MSNBC hiring "glam squad" for Rachel Maddow, forcing her to doff glasses, wear skirt? Lance Bass and his dance beard Lacey Schwimmer. London hotel records Josh Hartnett on sex tape. The Guardian on Guy Ritchie's 'gay movie': "I’ve...
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Singer/Songwriter Rufus Wainwright's opera debut has been shelved after a falling out between him and the Metropolitan Opera. The Canadian had been commissioned to compose and write an opera for the Met,[...] Read more!
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
The piano man had begun work on his first ever opera, but he's composing it in French, and his would-be commissioners at the Met and Lincoln Center prefer English for new operas. That's why he's looking to find it a new home -- that, and because the Met can't even fit it in 'til 2014 and Rufus "added wryly, 'I'm an impatient pop star.'"
Feast of Music (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
According to Dan Wakin in today's Times, the Met, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to cut ties with singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, who has been writing an opera, Prima Donna, under commission from them for the past two years. The...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
We’ve never seen an opera at the Met. It’s one of those things that has been discussed as a sort of thing-to-do-while-you- live-in-New-York, but since we’ve been here for eleven years, and aren’t going anywhere, what’s the rush? But we’ll admit that we would have been intrigued by the thought of seeing an opera by pop diva Rufus Wainwright, especially since it’s about a “day in the life of an aging...
A Whiff of Smiff (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
I know it’s only Thursday, but, I don’t know that I’ll get this up tomorrow and I don’t want to miss Feel Good Friday. I love this song and I love Rufus Wainwright and Judy Garland.
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Black Mountain , Basia Bulat , Kathleen Edwards , Holy F*ck , Plants And Animals , Shad and Two Hours Traffic will perform at the 3rd annual Polaris Music Prize gala at Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre, Sept 29. Chart Rufus Wainwright drops his plans to write an opera for the Met after his idea to write it en francais was rejected. CBC US agents arrest a blogger suspected of leaking new Guns N' Roses...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
DENVER—Wednesday afternoon at the Denver Art Museum, Jennifer Lopez , Capitol File and Viacom honored Marian Wright Edelman for her work with the Children's Defense Fund. Before the awards presentation began, the Daily Transom spied the singer Rufus Wainwright , wearing a plaid blazer, striped T-shirt and sandals. "I'm gay and out and proud, but in saying that I feel that the gay community could be...
Out in Hollywood (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
I ask you, is there any sound more beautiful than Rufus Wainwright singing "Hallelujah"? Darn few that's for sure. He ended his set at last night's HRC concert with the song that I was embarassed to admit I became...
Out in Hollywood (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Last night I went to the Human Rights Campaign's "Rock to Win" concert headlined by Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Etheridge, Rufus Wainwright, Margaret Cho and Thelma Houston. The concert was stopped when Hillary Clinton made her fantastic speech at the convention...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
I've been a loyal fan of Rufus Wainwright for 10 years. I've been a Torontonian for 13 years. Wainwright is one of my favourite performers today, I love all of his music. I also love living in Toronto. It's too bad that Wainwright felt the need to spout off about his apparent contempt for the Big Smoke for Xtra recently.Said Wainwright: "I hate visiting Toronto. I can't stand it. The place drives me...
We Are Pop Slags (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
We almost forgot about Dido, but she’s still around. She’s about to release her new album, Safe Trip Home, on November 4th. The album was recorded in LA and London and is co-produced by Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, The Eels, Rufus Wainwright), Rollo Armstrong and Dido. Cheerily titled first single ‘Don’t Believe in Love’ will be released mid-September. If you really can’t wait for that, she’s currently...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Courtesy of Pitchperfect PR Impish Über -talent Nico Muhly, known to some as Philip Glass’s protégée, to others as the guy who helps make Björk, Rufus Wainwright, and Antony sound better, and to most as the one of the next great hopes for the future of classical music, is about the head to Paris for the premiere of his second collaboration with choreographer Benjamin Millepied. Until then he’s occupied...
