Montréal Premiere of Jonathan Dawe's Nero and the Fall of Lehman Brothers June 14-17

BOP | Ballet-Opera-Pantomime is thrilled to present the Montréal premiere of the opera Nero and The Fall of Lehman Brothers from June 14 to 17 at Eglise Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Rosaire's Guillet Hall. Composed by American composer Jonathan Dawe and premiered in New York in December 2016, the opera is now presented in Montreal's Villeray neighbourhood, and brings together twenty-five young Canadian and American instrumental performers and singers.

Nero and The Fall of Lehman Brothers

Treating with great originality and humour the salient events surrounding the financial crash of the Lehman Brothers' investment bank in the fall of 2008, the opera borrows idioms from baroque rhetoric, from news channels, and even-for its compositional tools and methods-from the stock market. Couched in an ultra-realistic staging inspired by the sociology of the trading floor, the plot's protagonists are guided by the young actor and director Maxime Genois. The musical production of the show is secured by conductor Hubert Tanguay-Labrosse.

Nero and The Fall of Lehman Brothers will be presented at 8 pm on Thursday, June 14, Friday, June 15 and Saturday, June 16, as well as at 4 pm on Sunday, June 17. The performances will take place in Eglise Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Rosaire's Guillet Hall. Entrance to the hall is at 800, Rue du Rosaire, in Montreal.

Maxime Genois

Trained at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal, actor
Maxime Genois also works as a director. His first short film, Le
Clown, featuring Emmanuel Schwartz and Aliocha Schneider, won
the Jury Prize at the Montreal World Film Festival, and was
presented at Cannes. On stage, Maxime has recently performed in Denis Marleau's
Tartuffe at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, and in Annabel Soutar's
Fredy.

Jonathan Dawe

Jonathan Dawe has up to now written four operas: Nero and The Fall
of Lehman Brothers, Cosi faran tutti (They'll All Do It!), Cracked
Orlando: dramma per musica e fractals, and Prometheus. Each opera
revisits music of the past through compositional procedures inspired
by fractal figures. He is a professor at the Juilliard School, where he has previously studied
with Milton Babbitt. Jonathan Dawe has received commissions for
the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers
Orchestra, and the Brentano Quartet, amongst others.