Dylan Mattingly Opera
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Dylan mattingly opera. The 2017 edition of the industry and wild up s first take is right around the corner. Based opera company the industry has announced the third installment of its biennial west coast workshop for new american operas. May 3 4 2018 contemporaneous presented by beth morrison projects the music center at strathmore north bethesda md. A steam punk vr experience is a cutting edge collaboration between luma tri cities opera enhance vr and opera omaha that re imagines world class theater for a socially distanced age.
The world premiere of dylan mattingly s gravity grace might have been the most gorgeous work of the day and it was an exhilarating finale. A computer program named mira creates the libretto and music and plays the human singers musicians and dancers. 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. By nick norton 02 20 2017.
A grand celebration of being alive set on a vast time scale in an expanding universe developing this opera inspired the launch of contemporaneous imagination. Act i scene 13. Stranger love acts ii iii the finale will be the concert premiere of the last two acts from co artistic director dylan mattingly s ecstatic 6 hour opera stranger love. His music has been described as gorgeous by the san francisco chronicle transcendent and the most poignantly entrancing passages of beautiful music in recent memory by la weekly and in the pantheon of contemporary american composers prufrock s dilemma and is often informed.
Laura karpman on balls. 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. Oct 3 2018 7 00pm anonymous ensemble presents a concert of material from turing a new opera by composer william antoniou and librettist eamonn farrell. Iron coal staged world premiere director.
Dylan mattingly s work is fundamentally ecstatic committed to transformative experience. Dylan mattingly on stranger love by nick norton 02 21 2017 the 2017 edition of the industry and wild up s first take is right around the corner. Turing is the story of alan mathison turing as told by the artificial intelligence that he envisioned. Posted in first take interviews and tagged dylan mattingly first take opera stranger love the industry wild up.
The piece sounded at first like a simple but catchy 1960s style garage rock song which was suffused with rich vibrant sheets of organ from joanne pearce martin mixed with sugary pop melodies from pianists vicki ray and aron kallay.