{"id":546,"date":"2006-10-15T19:19:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T17:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=546"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:19:50","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T17:19:50","slug":"klaus-nomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Klaus Nomi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"image545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/10\/klausnomi.jpg\" alt=\"klausnomi.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most touching interpretations of the song of cold genius of <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Purcell\">Henry Purcell<\/a>s semi-opera King Arthur (1691) Act 3 Movt. 20, Prelude and Aria, &#8220;What power art thou&#8221; is the one by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klaus_Nomi\">Klaus Nomi<\/a> in a Klassik-Rock-Nacht-concert organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eberhard-schoener.de\/Portrait\/index.htm\">Eberhard Schoener<\/a> Dec. 1982.  -><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C_A6IR58Htg\">youtube link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Klaus Nomi in Lothar Lamberts film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0217465\/\">&#8220;Ex und Hopp&#8221;<\/a> singing in soprano <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Falsetto\">falsetto<\/a> -> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Oi5R66ibV4\">youtube link<\/a>, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Klaus Nomi is usually known for his pop music (like e.g. &#8220;Total Eclipse&#8221; -> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q70X0sDNoeY\"> youtube link<\/a>) and that is how I learned about him during my youth. However he wanted to work at an opera and had studied at the Berlin conservatory until 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most touching interpretations of the song of cold genius of Henry Purcells semi-opera King Arthur (1691) Act 3 Movt. 20, Prelude and Aria, &#8220;What power art thou&#8221; is the one by Klaus Nomi in a Klassik-Rock-Nacht-concert organized by Eberhard Schoener Dec. 1982. ->youtube link Klaus Nomi in Lothar Lamberts film &#8220;Ex und [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}