Rufus Wainwright: 'I was looking right into her face when my mother died' | Interview

On the eve of a new album and the London debut of his opera, Prima Donna, singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright talks about fatherhood, the first 'gay sonnet' and his grief at the death of his mother, Kate McGarrigle, last monthImeet Rufus Wainwright for lunch in London a week after the funeral of his mother, the folk singer Kate McGarrigle, and he is still undone by the shock of grief – now tearful, now dissolving into his high camp laugh – raw-nerved in red clogs, skinny jeans and a...

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