Dylan Mattingly Stranger Love

17 2018 on the prototype festival.

Dylan mattingly stranger love. Performed by contemporaneous in an unstaged performance presented by the prototype festival and roulette. January 16 2018 at roulette brooklyn ny. For the past five years i have been writing and developing stranger love an epic and ecstatic multimedia opera on love the seasons and the expansion of the universe. Excerpt from stranger love act ii by contemporaneous published on 2015 11 18t04 38 55z an excerpt from the opening of act ii of dylan mattingly and thomas bartscherer s opera in progress stranger love.

In summer their love flourishes. Autumn and winter they face threats from without and within. The first act of stranger love was presented in a concert performance by contemporaneous on the prototype festival in january 2018 and the creative team is currently working on the full production. Mattingly was the musical america new artist of the month for february 2013 and was awarded the charles ives scholarship by the american academy of arts and letters in 2016.

At roughly five hours long with 8 singers 6 dancers and an orchestra built on the engine of three microtonal pianos the music of stranger love is like an elemental force offering world sized visions of the disparate ecstasies of a human life on earth from the gentle falling of snow to a gospel revival and the vertigo of looking into the stars. Stranger love follows two lovers whose romance unfolds to the rhythm of the seasons. Stranger love is an opera in three acts. In love commissioned by the los angeles philharmonic premiered may 26 2015 at disney hall.

In springtime they meet. Mattingly was born. A second spring brings resignation and the chance for renewal. Music by dylan mattingly libretto by thomas bartscherer.

Featuring singers molly netter jodie landau jane sheldon jonathan woody elisa sutherland kate maroney charlotte mundy and actress ellen mclaughlin. Stranger love act i scene 13 jubilee. Over time the frame broadens to offer an archetypal picture of human love and ultimately an astral envisioning of the divine a love supreme. Mattingly s in development 6 hour multimedia opera stranger love has recently been presented on the prototype festival and the bang on a can marathon.

Co created by composer dylan mattingly and librettist thomas bartscherer.