Day of Imagination, a day-long festival on Sept. 18, 2021 organized by Contemporaneous, will world premiere several unique operas. 

The festival, which will take place at The Space at Irondale in Brooklyn, New York, will kick off with Acts two and three of Dylan Mattingly’s “Stranger Love.” The first Act of the opera previously premiered at the 2018 PROTOTYPE Festival. That opera, which features eight singers, six dancers and follows two lovers as their romance unspools with the changing seasons, will begin at 2 p.m. 

At 5 p.m., audiences will get to see the world premiere of Mexican composer Andrés Martínez de Velasco’s “Particles and Fields,” a work which tells the story of scientists’ search for a theory to bridge quantum mechanics and general relativity. This opera will be joined by the world premiere of the instrumental arrangement to Kara-Lis Coverdale’s “Aftertouches.”

Finally, at 8 p.m., the festival will present the world premiere of Brian Petuch’s “Portrait and a Dream. The opera, which focuses on the life and work of Jackson Pollack, will be directed by Ashley Tata.