La Nef

Cédric Delorme-Bouchard teams up with BOP (Ballet-Opéra-Pantomime) to create an astonishing show of light, movement and sound based on the piano compositions of Olivier Messiaen, a leading figure in late 20th-century contemporary music. On circular arena, 4 grand pianos surround a black monolith, an epicentre from which light and images animated by the frenetic musical score emerge. From this luminous altar, 9 dancers join in the mysterious celebration, their movements embodying Messiaen’s ever-changing sacred rhythms.

La Nef

Please Thrill Me

Two punks meet freight hopping in the middle of the night. Jazz, who is on a journey to define oneself and Pop who is returning home to the big city by the sea. In this oasis at the end of the world, they will meet a series of characters, all haunted by a symphony of indeterminable desires and by the irresistible dream of a life without limits.

Nero and The Fall of Lehman Brothers

Set a few days before the crash of one of the most important investment banks on Wall Street, Jonathan Dawe’s Nero and The Fall of Lehman Brothers draws on baroque opera rhetoric to tell this key chapter of the last great financial crisis.

Quatuor pour la fin du Temps

Featured in this year’s edition of the performing arts festival OFFTA, this new show sheds an alternative light on French composer Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time by confronting the mystic and spiritual universe of the work with the embodied and visceral world of the dancers and choreographers Karina Champoux, Dave St-Pierre, Frédéric Tavernini, and Anne Thériault.

The Burning Fiery Furnace

Following on the success of Curlew River, BOP presented The Burning Fiery Furnace in June 2015. It is the second of Benjamin Britten’s three church parables, and was last performed in Montreal more than fifty years ago.

Curlew River

Warmly received by audiences and critics alike, BOP’s first production made the new company’s arrival on Montreal’s musical scene a well-noted appearance.