Contemporaneous Ensemble: Day of Imagination

OPERA / MUSIC
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
2:00, 5:00 & 8:00 PM

The Space at Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$20 per set; $30 all-day pass
https://www.contemporaneous.org/upcoming-events/day-of-imagination

An amazing day with Contemporaneous, with two operatic premieres sandwiching a set of some intriguing instrumental music. One of those operatic premieres comprises the second two acts of Dylan Mattingly's amour fou of a six-hour opera, Stranger Love, a Saint François d'Assise for our time (the first act, which Contemporaneous premiered a few years ago, was astonishing). The other is Brian Petuch's Jackson Pollack opera — a new piece by a composer who can really write music drama. In the middle set, a multi-media piece about particle physics and an orchestration of an enchanting electronica album.

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