Hommage à Klaus Nomi, Version 1

Abschnitte/Sätze
1. So simple (nach: "Simple Man" von Kristian Hoffmann) | 2. Remember (nach: "Death" aus "Dido und Aeneas" von Purcell / Tate) | 3. Can't help it (nach:" Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß..." / "Falling in Love again" von Friedrich Holländer) | 4. The witch (nach: "Ding Dong", aus: "The wizard of Oz" von Harold Arlen) | 5. Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte | 6. Wasting my Time | 7. You Don't Own Me | 8. Cold Song | 9. Total Eclipse

Beschreibung
"Could you tell us what your current concert, title Hommage à Klaus Nomi – a songplay in nine fits, is about?

When I was thirteen, my father bought me an LP of Klaus Nomi, who had this incredible, angel-like voice, and his songs were a combination of pop and classical music. He trained his voice by himself to become a counter tenor. It was not at all common in the seventies and eighties to perform as a counter tenor. He was from a village in Germany and he went to Berlin and then to New York. His name was originally Klaus Sperber, and then he changed it to Klaus Nomi. So he created a new identity for himself, an alien figure of a sad clown, completely pale and white, with very robotic, mechanical gestures. I was completely intrigued by him and since the age of thirteen, I was always a fan of his songs and his personality. He was one of the first famous AIDS victims and he died at the age of thirty-nine. He was a man who was obsessed by becoming someone else and trying not to fit into the rules of society, which is a very important topic – at least for me. I rearranged nine of his songs (because of the content of the text) and called them a hommage."
Olga Neuwirth (Werkkommentar, Ricordi Berlin), abgerufen 24.06.2021 [https://www.ricordi.com/de-DE/Catalogue.aspx/details/442243]

Uraufführung
10. August 1998 - Salzburg
Veranstalter: Salzburger Festspiele
Mitwirkende: Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke (Dirigent)

Uraufführung (Fünfte weitere songs Nr. 5-9, 2008)
7. März 2008 - Berlin
Veranstalter: Märzmusik

Weitere Informationen: Fünfte weitere songs (2008)

Aufnahme
Titel: Olga Neuwirth: Hommage à Klaus Nomi (1998)
Plattform: YouTube
Herausgeber: gɹinblat
Datum: 10.05.2021
Mitwirkende: Andrew Watts (Countertenor), Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher (Dirigent)

Titel: Hommage a Klaus Nomi
Plattform: YouTube
Herausgeber: theoperaoftimur
Datum: 20.02.2017
Mitwirkende: Timur (Countertenor), Julian Wachner (Dirigent)