The Long Line Explore Nine Centuries of Music Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright

American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and composer. He has recorded eleven studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written two classical operas and set Shakespeare's sonnets to music for a theatre piece by Robert Wilson.

Wainwright's self-titled debut album was released through DreamWorks Records in May 1998. His second album, Poses, was released in June 2001. Wainwright's third and fourth studio albums, Want One (2003) and Want Two (2004), were repackaged as the double album Want in 2005. In 2007, Wainwright released his fifth studio album, Release the Stars, and his first live album, Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall.

His second live album, Milwaukee at Last!!!, was released in 2009, followed by the studio albums All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010) and Out of the Game (2012). The double album Prima Donna (2015) was a recording of his opera of the same name. His ninth studio album, Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets (2016), featured nine adaptions of Shakespeare's sonnets. Rufus' 10th studio album, Unfollow the Rules, was released on July 20, 2020. His eleventh, Folkocracy, was released on June 2, 2023.

Wainwright is the son of musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, the older brother of singer Martha Wainwright, the half-brother of singer-songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche, the nephew of singer-songwriters Sloan Wainwright (paternal) and Anna McGarrigle (maternal), and the grandson of writer Loudon Wainwright Jr..

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Works

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  • Prima Donna 2007
  • 11:11
  • 14th Street
  • Agnus Dei
  • All dessen müd (Sonnet 66)
  • Alone Time
  • Another Believer
  • Apartment
  • April Fools
  • Baby
  • Barbara
  • Barcelona
  • Beautiful Child
  • Beauty Mark
  • Between My Legs
  • Bitter Tears
  • California
  • Candles
  • Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
  • Cokolwiek się zdarzy
  • Crumb by Crumb
  • Damned Ladies
  • Damsel in Distress
  • Danny Boy
  • Dinner at Eight
  • Do I Disappoint You
  • Dream Requiem
  • Dream Requiem: Agnus Dei
  • Dream Requiem: Applause
  • Dream Requiem: Darkness I
  • Dream Requiem: Darkness II
  • Dream Requiem: Darkness III
  • Dream Requiem: Darkness IV
  • Dream Requiem: In paradisum
  • Dream Requiem: Kyrie eleison
  • Dream Requiem: Lux aeterna
  • Dream Requiem: Lux perpetua
  • Dream Requiem: Offertorium
  • Dream Requiem: Requiem aeternam
  • Dream Requiem: Sanctus
  • Dream Requiem: Sequentia I. Dies irae
  • Dream Requiem: Sequentia II. Mors stupebit
  • Dream Requiem: Sequentia III. Rex tremendae
  • Dream Requiem: Sequentia IV. Ingemisco
  • Dream Requiem: Sequentia V. Confutatis
  • Early Morning Madness
  • Evil Angel
  • Farewell (Sonnet 87)
  • Foolish Love
  • Gay Messiah
  • Give Me What I Want and Give It to Me Now!
  • Go or Go Ahead
  • Going to a Town
  • Greek Song
  • Grey Gardens
  • Hadrian
  • Harvester of Hearts
  • Hatred
  • He Loved
  • Heartburn
  • Hometown Waltz
  • I Don’t Know What It Is
  • Imaginary Love
  • In My Arms
  • In a Graveyard
  • Jericho
  • Kathleen
  • Leaving for Paris No. 2
  • Little Sister
  • Martha
  • Matinee Idol
  • Me and Liza
  • Memphis Skyline
  • Millbrook
  • Montauk
  • Movies of Myself
  • My Little You
  • Natasha
  • Nobody’s Off the Hook
  • Not Ready to Love
  • Oh What a World
  • Old Whore’s Diet
  • Only The People That Love
  • Out of the Game
  • Peaceful Afternoon
  • Peach Trees
  • Perfect Man
  • Poses
  • Pretty Things
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 10: Mon dieu qu'il est laid!
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 11: À ton âge, François
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 12: Voici Le Journaliste!
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 13: Bonjour, Madame Saint Laurent
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 15: Madame Saint Laurent
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 16: La Première ...
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 18: Abandonne, pose ta couronne
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 19: Charmant, tout à fait
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 1: Oh! Madame Saint Laurent
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 20: Oh, ma voix!
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 21: Oh, ma douleur!
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 23: The Kiss
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 2: J'ai rêvé toute la nuit
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 3: Merci. Asseyez-vous
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 4: Ah! Les soucis!
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 5: Aliénor, quelle femme merveilleuse
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 6: Mais non, Madame!
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 7: Mais que se passe-t-il donc
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 8: À l époque, François
  • Prima Donna, Act I, Scene 9: Cet appartement
  • Prima Donna, Act II, Scene 10: Je suis heureuse
  • Prima Donna, Act II, Scene 11: Prenez-le donc
  • Prima Donna, Act II, Scene 1: Dans mon pays de Picardie
  • Prima Donna, Act II, Scene 2: Excuse-moi, Monsieur Philippe
  • Prima Donna, Act II, Scene 3: Vocalises
  • Prima Donna, Act II, Scene 4: Et maintenant, Aliénor, à nous deux
  • Prima Donna, Act II, Scene 5: Quand j étais jeune étudiante
  • Prima Donna, Act II, Scene 7: Meditation
  • Prima Donna, Act II, Scene 8: C'est impossible!
  • Prima Donna, Act II, Scene 9: Maintenant, il est temps
  • Prima Donna: Les feux d’artifice t’appellent
  • Prima Donna: Overture
  • Rashida
  • Rebel Prince
  • Release the Stars
  • Respectable Dive
  • Romantical Man
  • Rubincon
  • Rules and Regulations
  • Sad With What I Have
  • Sally Ann
  • Sanssouci
  • Sometimes You Need
  • Song of You
  • Sonnet 10
  • Sonnet 20
  • Sonnet 43
  • Take All My Loves (Sonnet 40)
  • The Art Teacher
  • The Consort
  • The Maker Makes
  • The Motion Waltz (Emotional Commotion)
  • The One You Love
  • The Tower of Learning
  • This Love Affair
  • Tiergarten
  • Trouble in Paradise
  • True Loves
  • Tulsa
  • Unfollow The Rules
  • Vibrate
  • Vicious World
  • Want Symphonic
  • Want Symphonic – Want One
  • Want Symphonic – Want Two