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The biggest names from the world of art, film, music, literature and dance. Alan Yentob gets close up with those shaping today's cultural world.

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imagine...: Summer 2009: Episode 3: Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna

Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna

Episode 3

Episode 3: Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna

Summer 2009

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Alan Yentob meets one of modern music's most mercurial talents, Rufus Wainwright.

Alan Yentob meets one of modern music's most mercurial talents, Rufus Wainwright, as he creates his very first opera, Prima Donna.

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.

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