Rufus Wainwright is a musical polymath who occupies a unique and beloved place in our musical lives - singer, songwriter and composer of two operas and a musical. His latest work, Dream Requiem, is an ...

For Rufus Wainwright, writing songs is more than a vocation. “It’s almost a bodily function by now,” he said this week. ”I write songs all the time, I go to the piano first thing every morning, and ...

Osvaldo Golijov’s beauteously strange “Ainadamar” has reached Los Angeles. The opera, one of this century’s most gratifying, portrays the 1936 political execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca ...