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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.
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Zéphyr
Zéphyr, produced in partnership with FLIP Fabrique, is BOP's first foray into the world of circus. The show is based on a collage of some twenty instrumental pieces drawn from the French Baroque repertoire, with excerpts from works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, André Campra, Marin Marais and Jean-Philippe Rameau.
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Riders to the Sea / Le Flambeau de la nuit
BOP and I Musici de Montréal chamber orchestra are joining forces with the Opéra de Montréal for a double bill in which the sea has a starring role. The sea that feeds us… but that also robs us of life.
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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.
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Le Vaisseau-cœur
Onstage, close to fifty performers of all ages: singers, dancers, and instrumentalists take part in a form of choral celebration where prayers, poetry, and colours intermingle. Here is an invitation to explore sacred expression through two beacons of French 20th-century music.
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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.
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J'aurais voulu être un Gougoune
A music and theater performance for 9 to 99 year-olds, “J'aurais voulu être un Gougoune” initiates one and all to Sorcier Gougoune’s terrifically chaotic – if not “quasi-Dadaist” – world. Drawing on a wide range of influences, it combines naïve and art music forms.
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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.
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Le Vin herbé
At the crossroads of theatre and opera, Le Vin herbé offers an iconoclastic, unbound, physical and innovative vision of the Tristan and Isolde myth: dance, martial arts, rap battles and haute couture meet art music.
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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.
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Images de Sappho
A coproduction with ECM+ and presented at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, Images de Sappho is the first achievement of BOP’s aims with regard to Dance performances.
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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.
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