Rufus Wainwright Debuts New Album Tomorrow April 20th

Singer-songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright is releasing a new album, tomorrow April 20th. All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu, is the latest offering from the performer who spent the last year working on an opera, Prima Donna. This giant feat was inspired by Wainwright’s ever-present love of the theatre and themes of love and tragedy, as was his material on his current album. The artist’s oeuvre includes many nods to the agonies and ecstasies of life through the dramatic and lost romanticism of the Shakespearean Sonnets, with some even being directly turned into lyrics word for word on the album. The clip above is a little taste of what you can expect to receive under the cellophane tomorrow morning. Wainwright, “lauded as the “greatest singer-songwriter on the planet,” by Elton John, does not fall short of the praise. He validates it.