Improbable Research Collection #127: The Big Bank Opera, Act 4 (of 4)

The Big Bank Opera, Act 4 (of 4)

("To Boldly Go")

The big banks have collapsed. Our poor little former big-bank bankers rue the past, and peer at their future. (The music is from the overture to Rossini's "Barber of Seville".)

This is Act 4 of "The Big Bank Opera", in which stylish bankers in a swanky Wall Street bar explain the explosive rise and fall of big banking and big bankers.

This mini-opera has music by L.v. Beethoven & G. Rossini, and words by Marc Abrahams. Starring Maria Ferrante and Ben Sears, and Brandon Grimmett, conducted by David Stockton. The premiere, seen here, was on October 1, 2009 as part of the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. Bar patrons: Benoit Mandelbrot, Stephen Wolfram, John Barrett, Wade Adams, Nobel laureates Rich Roberts, Wolfgang Ketterle, Dudley Herschbach, Paul Krugman, Roy Glauber, Frank Wilczek, Martin Chalfie, Orhan Pamuk, and William Lipscomb; and many Ig Nobel Prize winners.

Links:

2009 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony: http://improbable.com/ig/2009/

Maria Ferrante: http://www.mariaferrante.com/

Ben Sears: http://www.benandbrad.com/bio.html

Category:

Science & Technology

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• improbable
• research
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• boldly
• go
• rossini
• barber
• seville
• beethoven

[fenrirgg]

My favorite act was the first.

[547212436]

lol kick ass

[LarcheOsborne]

These guys should be in congress.