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House of Rufus
''House of Rufus'' is a collection of six studio albums, two live albums (one being a double album), four additional albums of previously unreleased material, and six DVDs recorded by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, reissued as a 19-disc box set in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2011. Wainwright's official site claimed that the collection "spans Rufus' entire career and represents the most complete collection of Rufus Wainwright recordings to date."〔
The box set's title commemorates the five-night residency of the same name at London's Royal Opera House during July 18–23, 2011. Only 3,000 copies were produced for worldwide distribution. The collection contains "hard-to-find" tracks and is encased in a red velvet-covered book. While some reviewers questioned the need for such an extensive collection, critical reception of the box set was mostly positive.
==Background==
The box set's release was confirmed on Wainwright's official site on March 21, 2011. Only 3,000 copies were produced for worldwide distribution. Box sets were sold for £150 in the United Kingdom, €170 throughout Europe, and were available as imports in the United States for $350. As part of the marketing strategy to promote the collection and concert series, Universal Music Catalogue developed a "treasure hunt" video for YouTube where visitors identified clues and navigated links within a collage of Wainwright's music videos. According to Wainwright, the rarities box set was a "little Rufus blast" before he began work on his next pop album.〔 Wainwright also said the following of the collection: "There's my old demos, a lot of them were recorded in Montreal... when I had a very, very different voice, I kind of sounded like a little old man. There's that and there's a lot of fabulous collaborations with my mother, my father and some other great artists."〔 Wainwright had originally intended to call the box set ''The Rufus Cycle''. After being told the title was "too sophisticated", he went with ''House of Rufus'', partly inspired by Lady Gaga's Haus of Gaga. Wainwright claimed the box set's release shortly following his father's (Loudon Wainwright III) box set ''40 Odd Years'' was "totally serendipitous".〔
The box set's title commemorates the five-night residency at London's Royal Opera House during July 18–23, 2011, also referred to as the "House of Rufus" (sometimes the "Haus of Rufus") or billed as "Five Nights of Velvet, Glamour and Guilt". During the first night, Wainwright performed his tribute concert to Judy Garland previously recorded in June 2006 and released as ''Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall'' in 2007. The production was repeated on July 22, the fourth concert of the series. The July 19 and 21 shows included performances alongside his sister Martha Wainwright and father Loudon.〔 The residency's final night included a program called "Rufus Does Rufus" and featured Wainwright performing selections from his 2009 opera ''Prima Donna''. Stephen Oremus conducted the Britten Sinfonia for three of the performances, and soprano Janis Kelly was featured in the "concert version" of ''Prima Donna''.〔 Reception of the residency performances was mixed.〔
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