Dylan Mattingly Stranger Love

Music by dylan mattingly libretto by thomas bartscherer.

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. 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. 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 was born.

Co created by composer dylan mattingly and librettist thomas bartscherer. Dylan mattingly born march 18 1991 is an american composer from berkeley california early life. Stranger love follows two lovers whose romance unfolds to the rhythm of the seasons. Stranger love act i scene 13 jubilee.

In springtime they meet. Performed by contemporaneous in an unstaged performance presented by the prototype festival and roulette. Performed by contemporaneous at roulette brooklyn jan. A second spring brings resignation and the chance for renewal.

Featuring singers molly netter jodie landau jane sheldon jonathan woody elisa sutherland kate maroney charlotte mundy and actress ellen mclaughlin. In summer their love flourishes. I was a stranger. 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. 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. 17 2018 on the prototype festival. Over time the frame broadens to offer an archetypal picture of human love and ultimately an astral envisioning of the divine a love supreme.

In love commissioned by the los angeles philharmonic premiered may 26 2015 at disney hall.