Over time the frame broadens to offer an archetypal picture of human love and ultimately an astral envisioning of the divine a love supreme.
Dylan mattingly stranger love.
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.
I was a stranger.
Performed by contemporaneous at roulette brooklyn jan.
In springtime they meet.
Mattingly was born.
Featuring singers molly netter jodie landau jane sheldon jonathan woody elisa sutherland kate maroney charlotte mundy and actress ellen mclaughlin.
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.
Stranger love is an opera in three acts.
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.
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.
In love commissioned by the los angeles philharmonic premiered may 26 2015 at disney hall.
Stranger love act i scene 13 jubilee.
Stranger love follows two lovers whose romance unfolds to the rhythm of the seasons.
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.
Autumn and winter they face threats from without and within.
In summer their love flourishes.
17 2018 on the prototype festival.
Performed by contemporaneous in an unstaged performance presented by the prototype festival and roulette.
Co created by composer dylan mattingly and librettist thomas bartscherer.
Music by dylan mattingly libretto by thomas bartscherer.
January 16 2018 at roulette brooklyn ny.
