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BOOK AND MUSIC BY KATE SOPER FROM LE ROMAN DE LA ROSE BY GUILLAUME DE LORRIS AND JEAN DE MEUN DIRECTED BY MICHAEL RAU PERFORMED BY WET INK ENSEMBLE AND KATE SOPER T he startlingly refreshing work of composer/performer Kate Soper arrives with the world premiere of The Romance of the Rose. Performed by seven singers and a chamber ensemble and live electronics, this innovative work mixes medieval and contemporary allegory—along with shrieks, wails, and auto-tuned oration—to dramatize the ways in which love, sex, and music wreak havoc on our sense of self. A new voice in the lineage of iconoclastic performers like Laurie Anderson and Meredith Monk, Soper has been hailed as "one of the great originals of her generation" (The New Yorker). THURSDAY, APRIL 2 @ 7:30 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 4 @ 8:00 PM FRIDAY, APRIL 3 @ 7:30 PM SUNDAY, APRIL 5 @ 3:00 PM The Romance of the Rose was co-produced by Peak Performances @ Montclair State University. P E A K WO R L D P R E M I E R E KATE SOPER THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE OPERA IN TWO ACTS "ONE OF THE GREAT ORIGINALS OF HER GENERATION" – ALEX ROSS, THE NEW YORKER BOOK AND MUSIC BY KATE SOPER WITH ADDITIONAL TEXTS BY MULTIPLE AUTHORS INSPIRED BY LE ROMAN DE LA ROSE BY GUILLAUME DE LORRIS AND JEAN DE MEUN DIRECTED BY MICHAEL RAU PERFORMED BY WET INK LARGE ENSEMBLE AND GELSEY BELL, PHILLIP BULLOCK, ROBERT WESLEY MASON, DEVONY SMITH, LUCAS STEELE, BRETT UMLAUF 18