“Rome Is Falling” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center

Rome Is Falling
Sunday, July 13, 2025 at 8:00pm
Alice Tully Hall

Run AMOC* Festival, Summer for the City at Lincoln Center

Member Presale: May 8, 2025 – 12pm EDT
Tickets On Sale: May 15, 2025 – 12pm EDT
All tickets are Choose-What-You-Pay.

AMOC* presents the New York premiere of Rome is Falling, conceived and composed by AMOC* bassist Doug Balliett. Rome is a zany lesson on the absurdity of what can happen when influential people lose power. In his ever-prescient, ever-joyful way, Balliett brings audiences of all ages on a musical journey through a world that includes lollipops, an absurd number of characters, and an emperor with a chicken fetish. Rome was one of the world’s great civilizations, yet, like all empires, it fell. Why and how? The story is a mixture of politics, betrayal, immigration, religion, climate, pandemic, natural disaster, xenophobia, and bad luck–so much of what makes us human and that we continue to face today.

Doug Balliett*, Creator and Composer
Julia Eichten*, Stage Director
Matthew Aucoin*, Music Director

Ariadne Greif, Soprano
Chuanyuan Liu, Countertenor

Bret Easterling, Dance
Julia Eichten*, Dance

Jonny Allen*, Percussion
Paul Appleby*, Tenor
Matthew Aucoin and Elliott Figg, Keyboard
Doug Balliett, Double Bass
Emi Ferguson*, Flute
Keir GoGwilt*, Violin
Coleman Itzkoff*, Cello
Jordan Dodson, Electric Bass
Paul Holmes Morton, Theorbo and Baroque Guitar
Clay Zeller-Townson, Bassoon
Young People’s Chorus of New York City

An * asterisk next to an artist’s name denotes that they are one of 17 founding AMOC* company members.