Dylan Mattingly Stranger Love

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.

Dylan mattingly stranger love.

Co created by composer dylan mattingly and librettist thomas bartscherer. Mattingly was born. 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 act i scene 13 jubilee.

In summer their love flourishes. Performed by contemporaneous at roulette brooklyn jan. Dylan mattingly born march 18 1991 is an american composer from berkeley california early life. Performed by contemporaneous in an unstaged performance presented by the prototype festival and roulette.

Stranger love is an opera in three acts. 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. 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. Autumn and winter they face threats from without and within.

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. 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. 17 2018 on the prototype festival. Featuring singers molly netter jodie landau jane sheldon jonathan woody elisa sutherland kate maroney charlotte mundy and actress ellen mclaughlin.

January 16 2018 at roulette brooklyn ny. Over time the frame broadens to offer an archetypal picture of human love and ultimately an astral envisioning of the divine a love supreme. Stranger love follows two lovers whose romance unfolds to the rhythm of the seasons. In springtime they meet.

I was a stranger.