Klaus Nomi was one of the most bizarre artists in the notably strange New York underground scene in the 1970s. He moved from Germany to New York in 1972, and began singing professionally after a performance in which he sang opera and disappeared in a burst of light and smoke. Nomi's style mixed po
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. She is reticent about her private life; the biography published in current editions
Not only was George Frideric Handel one of the greatest composers of the baroque era, he also wrote the most frequently performed oratorio of all time: the "Messiah." Although this Christmas-time classic is the work that Handel is best known for, he composed a number of other masterpieces, both sacre