![]() ![]() It was like he was from a different planet and his parents were calling him home. Joey Arias recalled: "I still get goose pimples when I think about it. Dressed in a skin-tight spacesuit with a clear plastic cape, Nomi sang the aria " Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" ("My heart opens to your voice") from Camille Saint-Saëns' opera Samson et Dalila The performance ended with a chaotic crash of strobe lights, smoke bombs, and loud electronic sound effects as Nomi backed away into the smoke. Nomi came to the attention of the East Village art scene in 1978 with his performance in "New Wave Vaudeville", a four-night event MC'd by artist David McDermott. In 1977, Nomi appeared in a satirical camp production of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold at Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theater Company as the Rheinmaidens and the Wood Bird. He did some off-Broadway theater work and moonlighted as a pastry chef. He also sang opera arias at the Berlin gay discothèque Kleist Casino. In the 1960s, he worked as an usher at the Deutsche Oper in West Berlin where he sang for the other ushers and maintenance crew on stage in front of the fire curtain after performances. Klaus Nomi was born Klaus Sperber in Immenstadt, Bavaria, Germany on January 24, 1944. ![]()
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