page_title: If I Loved You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway
section_title: Background and development
hierarchical_section_title: If I Loved You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway / Background and development
caption_attribution_description: English: Rufus Wainwright and his boyfriend Jörn Weisbrodt at Metropolitan Opera's 2010-11 Season Opening Night - "Das Rheingold"
context_page_description: If I Loved You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway — An Evening of Love Duets is a show conceived and directed by American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, which premiered on June 14, 2014 during Luminato in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The concert featured men singing classic love songs to one another, and included a full orchestra and performances by Wainwright and special guests Boy George, David Byrne, Josh Groban and Steven Page. Countertenor Brennan Hall, Brent Carver, Glen Hansard, Ezra Koenig and Andrew Rannells also appeared. The program featured songs written by gay men, including Noël Coward, Lorenz Hart, Jerry Herman and Cole Porter.
context_section_description: In 2012, having been together for seven years, Wainwright married Jörn Weisbrodt, who became artistic director of Luminato in 2011. Wainwright began appearing at Luminato in 2010, when he performed in support of his album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010) and presented the North American premiere of his first opera, Prima Donna (2009). Since then, Wainwright has performed at Luminato regularly. In 2012, he and his sister Martha Wainwright paid tribute to their mother (Kate McGarrigle), who died in 2010, with a program called Love Over and Over.
  In 2014, Weisbrodt said of his association with both Luminato and Wainwright, "I think the primary purpose of my job is to love artists. Of course the relationship with my husband Rufus Wainwright is special but I feel if someone is more talented and deserves more to be associated with this festival it is him rather than me." For the 2014 festival, Wainwright conceived, created and directed a program called If I Loved You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway, which will feature "guys singing classic love songs to other guys".
caption: Rufus Wainwright and his husband Jörn Weisbrodt, who also serves as artistic director of Luminato, in 2010.
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