Rufus Wainwright will perform at the Proms next week, a double concert of music from his breakthrough albums Want One and Want Two, the first of which was released 20 years ago. He lives with his husband, Jörn Weisbrodt, in California and New York, and shares parenting of their 12-year-old daughter with her mother, Lorca, Leonard Cohen’s daughter. In June Wainwright released an album of folk song collaborations, Folkocracy, celebrating the muscial legacy of his own famous family.
It sounds as if it’s going to be quite an epic night at the Royal Albert Hall – two separate Proms in one evening?
I’m very excited and a little nervous too, because there will be several songs that I haven’t sung in many years and also with brand new arrangements. I did a concert with the Chicago Symphony about a week ago and we explored some of them, and it was pretty thrilling. So I think for the audience it should be a bit of a wild ride – and probably for myself too.
