"Best Classical Music Performances of 2023"
"Hats off to Dylan Mattingly and Thomas Bartscherer for the sheer audacity of their opera Stranger Love, a six-hour epic…For all its abstraction and timelessness…this work is absolutely of its time, slowing down emotion in a world that moves uncontrollably fast.” Joshua Barone, The New York Times
"Highlights" of 2023 San Francisco Chronicle
“a historic triumph of aspiration and persistence…” Joshua Kosman, "In LA, an Improbable Creation Makes Its Dazzling Debut," San Francisco Chronicle
“a singular, tender, euphoric, hypnotic opera" Zachary Woolfe, "A Six-Hour Opera Goes On For One Euphoric Night Only,"The New York Times
"[Stranger Love] goes big in a time when contemporary music tends to go small ... [W]hen something is this special, you can't help but want to tarry a while and linger in the moment." Joshua Barone, "Stranger Love Reflects the LA Philharmonic at its Finest," The New York Times
"That performance of Stranger Love remains one of the three or four happiest experiences I have ever had in a concert hall." Matthew Aucoin,New York Review of Books
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Stranger Love, The Cultural Attaché Interview
with Dylan Mattingly & Thomas Bartscherer