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Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna

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Last broadcast on Tue, 7 Jul 2009, 23:05 on BBC One (Scotland, Wales only) (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Alan Yentob explores the rapid rise of one of modern music's most mercurial talents, Rufus Wainwright.

Wainwright talks candidly about his background, his family of musical luminaries - father Loudon Wainwright III, mother Kate McGarrigle and sister Martha Wainwright - his troubled personal history with drugs and the tensions that have informed his music.

The film also follows his journey into the classical world as he creates his very first opera, Prima Donna.

Credits

Presenter
Alan Yentob
Director
George Scott
Executive Producer
Janet Lee

Broadcasts

  1. Tue 7 Jul 2009
    22:35
    BBC One (except Scotland, Wales)
  2. Tue 7 Jul 2009
    23:05
    BBC One (Scotland, Wales only)

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  1. Imagine
  2. Summer 2009

Duration

55 minutes

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