Klaus Nomi - Za Bakdaz

• Read my entire review at The Silent Ballet.
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• Za Bakdaz is a posthumous operetta. If you have never heard Klaus Nomi, please go listen to him right now. It is unlike anything you have ever heard. While there have been a number of countertenors (men who sing in a higher range; in this case soprano), no one compares to Nomi's range or thespian mystique. His stage persona was like a kabuki robot from the Weimar Republic's golden era wearing a monolithic bow tie and was as much a part of Klaus Nomi as the music. To be in the same room with him was transformative and other-worldly. And fun! It's been twenty five years since Nomi died of AIDS-related complications in 1983, so Page Wood and George Elliot, Nomi's consistent collaborators, decided to un-duct-tape the old shoe boxes of tapes and takes, piece together fragments from the Eighties and capture a semblance of Nomi's vision for his epic, unfinished space western!