parterre box

124 comments

• Drammy says:

  Do not want…for shame!

  on March 23, 2009 at 1:36 PM
• The Logical Tenor says:

  It swishes like Kathleen Battle and sounds like Steve Urkel. It must be a Rufus!

  on March 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM
• Ariosto says:

  Is this French he is singing? Correction: trying to sing?

  on March 23, 2009 at 1:53 PM
• Sanford says:

  His right (our left) sideburn is longer than the other one. If that’s what I’m noticing, the singing must be horrid. And it is. Makes Barbra’s classical album sound like Elly Ameling.

  on March 23, 2009 at 1:57 PM
• Sanford says:

  Speaking of pointless attempts at classical music, Anyone see that Andrea Bocelli is singing at MSG next month? With Opera Orchestra of New York (minus Eve Queler. STeven Mercurio is conducting) and Eglise Gutierrez.

  on March 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM
• slkinsey says:

  Whatever you can say about Bocelli’s singing (and I am not a fan of his attempts in the operatic genre), at least his singing is in the Italian tradition of “opera-style” (“operavocative”?) singing in popular music. The same cannot be said of Wainwright.
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  On the other hand, plenty of art songs were originally conceived to be performed by amateurs in salons. Not sure whether or to what extent this is true of “Les nuits d’été.”

  on March 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM
• Atomic Wings says:

  He should sing anything he wants in the confines of his home or private music-making sessions. But to do it in public is ridiculous. He hasn’t even learned the pitches and rhythms well enough to come off as a sincere amateur.

  on March 23, 2009 at 2:16 PM
• Cocky Kurwenal says:

  This is dreadful. Embarrassing. Is he so lacking in self-awareness that he can’t see that?

  on March 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM
• brian says:

  it’s time for rufus to sit down and shut up

  on March 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM
• balabanov11 says:

  the best thing about Rufus is his very hot Euro-boyfriend.

  on March 23, 2009 at 2:35 PM