Rufus Wainwright reaches for operatic heights with Hadrian

“Today?” Rufus Wainwright said when asked to name his three favourite operas.
A slight pause.
“Don Carlos,” he started, specifying through his pronunciation the original French version of Verdi’s grand opera.
“Salome,” he continued, referring to Richard Strauss’s one-act biblical shocker.
“And I’m a big fan of Jenůfa.” That would be Janáček’s heartbreaking tale of a single mother in a Moravian village.
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