In 1980 the first Classic-Rock-Night is happening. A concert lasting six hours live broadcasted to television starring: Jon Anderson, Gary Brooker (Procol Harum), Mike Batt and Esther Ofarim. The audience, rock an classical music fans all mixed together, takes up the extension of listening habits with great enthusiasm, the rock musicians play with the big orchestra conducted by Eberhard Schoener. After many years the singer Esther Ofarim is performing again with songs written by Eberhard Schoener.

Peter Gabriel was expected for the third Classic-Rock-Night. Since that time a long lasting friendship between artists keeps Peter Gabriel and Eberhard Schoener connected. Peter Gabriel is switched in with an interview during the Live event of "Virtopera" in Calcutta. In the following years five Classic-Rock-Nights will make that event to an institution, beginning to break the barriers between the different music styles and the audiences accept more and more that kind of interwoven stylistic orientations - and that is exactly what Eberhard Schoener intended. He is convinced that the real "Modernism" in fact is Rock- and Electronic music.

1982: The last grand performance by Klaus Nomi. He is singing the aria of "Cold Genius" from Purcell's opera "King Arthur". Eberhard Schoener is fascinated by the peculiar and bizarre way the artist performs operas and hit-songs in the way of a counter tenor. Nomi returns to New York already very sick. Eberhard Schoener is visiting him and trying to help but the disease has no cure yet. Nomi dies of Aids. Klaus Nomi is becoming the model for the first Short-Opera, which Eberhard Schoener is composing in 1996.