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Rufus Wainwright News

At Jennifer Lopez Event, Rufus Wainwright Muses On Gay Politics (The New York Observer) 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 ... Pop Singer Drops Plan to Compose for the Met (New York Times) The singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has dropped plans to compose a work for the Metropolitan Opera in a dispute over the language of the libretto. Pop Star Pulls His Opera From The Met Rufus Wainwright wants the opera, " (Arts Journal) Prima Donna ," to be in French; its would-be commissioners -- the Met and Lincoln Center Theater -- insisted on English. Wainwright said another stumbling block was the date of a potential production at the opera house. Wainwright parts ways with Met over opera project (CBC) Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has dropped plans to write an opera for the Metropolitan Opera after the New York opera company rejected his plan to write it in French. Music Review: An Invitation (Entertainment Weekly) Reviewed by Leah Greenblatt | A-

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