Rufus Wainwright review – puckish performance of Shakespeare's sonnets

St John at Hackney, LondonWainwright’s high-risk labour of love pays off as he corrals opera stars, actors and Florence Welch into luscious arrangements of the Bard’s classic poemsWere most pop artists to record an album of Shakespearean sonnets to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death, it would be impossible not to suspect rank opportunism. It’s to Rufus Wainwright’s credit, then, that his own motivations for taking on such a potentially credibi...

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