Montréal Premiere Of Jonathan Dawe's NERO AND THE FALL OF THE LEHMAN BROTHERS Announced

BOP | Ballet-Ope?ra-Pantomime is thrilled to present the Montreal premiere of the opera Nero and The Fall of Lehman Brothers from June 14 to 17 at E?glise 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 E?glise Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Rosaire's Guillet Hall. Entrance to the hall is at 800, Rue du Rosaire, in Montreal.

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