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        • Baritone, 2 Sopranos, Tenor; 1(afl)1(ca)2(bcl)1(cbn)2110timp.2perchp.pf+orgstr(4.4.2.2.1)
        • Baritone, 2 Sopranos, Tenor
        • 2 hr 7 min
        • Rufus Wainwright and Bernadette Colomine
        • French

        Programme Note

        Paris. Bastille Day. Régine Saint Laurent, once the world’s most revered operatic soprano, is preparing for her return to the stage after six years of silence. But in doing so, Régine is forced to confront the ghosts of her past. She reflects on her fearless youth and on her past and present struggles with confidence and anxiety. Her youth is forever gone and she has to now face a new reality. Can she defeat the demons that destroyed her career, and emerge triumphantly once more into the spotlight?

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          • Directors and visual artists increasingly devise innovative approaches for the presentation of opera. The past decade has been no exception, with several works from the Wise Music Catalogue finding their way into the theatre and concert hall, accompanied by compelling visuals.

        Reviews

        [Rufus has] written a love song to opera, soaked in the perennial operatic themes of loss, betrayal, delusion and nostalgia, and saturated in the musical styles of opera’s golden age.
        The Times, UK
        Prima Donna may not threaten Verdi’s status, but it does confirm Wainwright as a bold experimentalist.
        Sunday Times Culture, UK
        There are yearning arias, powerful ensemble singing… the orchestra, neither intrusive nor over-attentive bring flurries and thunder tenderness with strings, arguments punctuated by trumps of bassoon.
        The Observer