XS: The Opera Opus

[[Image:XS the Opera Boston 1986c.jpg|right|thumb|350px|XS the Opera: Shakespeare Theatre, Boston]]

[[Image:XS the Opera Boston 1986c.jpg|right|thumb|350px|XS the Opera: Shakespeare Theatre, Boston]]

'''XS: The Opera Opus''' was a [[no wave]] [[avant-garde]] [[music]] and [[art]] performance created by [[Rhys Chatham]] and [[Joseph Nechvatal]] in the mid 1980s. <ref>Brian Butterick, Susan Martin, Kestutis Nakas (eds.), ''"We Started a Nightclub": The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It'', Damiani Books, p. 320</ref><ref>''Die Donnergötter'' (LP, CD), [[Table of the Elements|Table of the Elements/Radium]] 2006 by [[Rhys Chatham]] CD book p. 14</ref><ref>XS: An Installation, Gray Art Gallery, [[East Carolina University]], Greenville catalogue </ref> [[Jane Lawrence]] Smith sang the lead role in the Boston performance and Yves Musard danced the main role. <ref>Brooks, Rosetta "Interview-Rhys Chatham & Joseph Nechvatal", ZG, (#12 Fall)</ref> Its theme was the excess of the [[nuclear weapon]] buildup of the [[Ronald Reagan]] presidency.<ref>XS: An Installation, Gray Art Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville catalogue </ref><ref> [[Willoughby Sharp]], "[[Joseph Nechvatal]], Machine Language Books, 1984. pp. 52-55.</ref>

'''XS: The Opera Opus''' was a [[no wave]] [[avant-garde]] [[music]] and [[art]] performance created by [[Rhys Chatham]] and [[Joseph Nechvatal]] in the mid 1980s. <ref>Nicolas Ballet, ''Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music''. [[Intellect Books]], p. 49</ref><ref>Brian Butterick, Susan Martin, Kestutis Nakas (eds.), ''"We Started a Nightclub": The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It'', Damiani Books, p. 320</ref><ref>''Die Donnergötter'' (LP, CD), [[Table of the Elements|Table of the Elements/Radium]] 2006 by [[Rhys Chatham]] CD book p. 14</ref><ref>XS: An Installation, Gray Art Gallery, [[East Carolina University]], Greenville catalogue </ref> [[Jane Lawrence]] Smith sang the lead role in the Boston performance and Yves Musard danced the main role. <ref>Brooks, Rosetta "Interview-Rhys Chatham & Joseph Nechvatal", ZG, (#12 Fall)</ref> Its theme was the excess of the [[nuclear weapon]] buildup of the [[Ronald Reagan]] presidency.<ref>XS: An Installation, Gray Art Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville catalogue </ref><ref> [[Willoughby Sharp]], "[[Joseph Nechvatal]], Machine Language Books, 1984. pp. 52-55.</ref>

==XS: The Opera at Shakespeare Theatre, Boston==

==XS: The Opera at Shakespeare Theatre, Boston==