l’artifice vrai
Newly beardless Rufus Wainwright once more graced the annual “Last Song of Summer” concert to benefit Robert Wilson‘s Watermill Center last weekend. (Rufus’s boyfriend Jorn Weisbrodt is the Creative Director of the Center.)
Despite a “miraculous last minute change of venue to the Field House at The Ross School’s lower school campus on Butter Lane due to the threat of Tropical Storm Danny,” the girly Gesamtkunstwerker managed to regale the crowd with a morceau from that opera of his.
As hamptons.com describes the scene, Rufus opened with “Grey Gardens,”
then going into “Faux,” also sung in French from his opera “Prima Donna.” “This is the final aria,” he explained. “There is a part in it where it seems like it’s over, but it’s not,” he said, “I know everybody is going to want to clap, but please hold off until you’re sure,” he joked.
Is the audience still there, wondering if they should clap?
“then going into “Faux,” Isn’t that his usual register?
I’m more than willing to hold my applause for ever so long…
Is there such a term to describe R.W; ‘as the world’s finest musical example of a cross-bred baboon’.
R.W. looks like he could be La Cieca’s twin brother.
“a cross-bred baboon”
…hmmm…
apparently Mr. Wainwright also just shot Harry’s dog.
Maybe Harry’s dog heard RW’s opera … RIP.
I need a feather, and badly!
i for one, can’t wait to hear his full opera
What exactly is a “girly” Gesamtkunstwerker…?