Show Notes

Wainwright’s opera Hadrian is being premiered by the Canadian Opera Company and was workshopped by Opera Fusion: New Works

Glenn Gould

Luciano Pavarotti

Beniamino Gigli vs. Vera Lynn

Piano composers: Chopin, Satie, Beethoven

Herbert von Karajan – conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic

Quebec sovereignty movement

“Liberty Cabbage” is a song composed by Wainwright when he was 16, and he continues to perform it

Georg Solti conducting Salome with Birgit Nilsson

Verdi’s Don Carlo with Placido Domingo and Shirley Verret

The film Diva

Prima Donna was Wainwright’s first opera

Maurice Ravel’s ballet piece Bolero

Maria Callas

Memoirs of Hadrian, the novel that inspired Wainwright’s opera Hadrian

Manchester Festival