STRANGER LOVE: Act I, Scene 13 — Jubilee (EXCERPT) | Dylan Mattingly

STRANGER LOVE Act I, Scene 13 — Jubilee Music by Dylan Mattingly Libretto by Thomas Bartscherer performed by Contemporaneous in an unstaged performance, presented by the PROTOTYPE Festival and Roulette. January 16, 2018 at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY. Featuring singers Molly Netter, Jodie Landau, Jane Sheldon, Jonathan Woody, Elisa Sutherland, Kate Maroney, Charlotte Mundy, and actress Ellen McLaughlin. Stranger Love is a 6-hour-long multimedia opera, scored for 28 musicians (including three microtonal pianos), 8 singers, and 6 dancers with music by composer Dylan Mattingly, text by Thomas Bartscherer, and visual design by Martin Butler and Ruben van Leer. The music of Stranger Love was written for the ensemble Contemporaneous. An immersive experience, Stranger Love is a grand celebration of life itself. It follows two lovers whose romance unfolds to the rhythm of the seasons. Set on a vast time-scale against the ever-expanding universe, it broadens in scope and frame over the course of three acts, moving from the personal to the archetypical to a vision of the divine — a love supreme. Stranger Love evokes the visceral thrill of a gospel revival, the ethereal calm of watching snow fall, the wonder of staring into the night sky. Learn more at www.stranger.love