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.

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