02 Sep 2008
Metropolitan Opera shuns Rufus Wainwright's French libretto
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/02/bmrufus.xml
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Henry Samuel [Daily Telegraph, 2 September 2008]
New York's Metropolitan Opera has turned down an opera by singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright because he wrote it in French and refused to translate the libretto into English.