EditorialDylan Mattingly, left, and Thomas Bartscherer, who collaborated on the long-gestating opera “Stranger Love,” in New York, April 29, 2023. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialDylan Mattingly, left, and Thomas Bartscherer, who collaborated on the long-gestating opera “Stranger Love,” in New York, April 29, 2023. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialDylan Mattingly, left, and Thomas Bartscherer, who collaborated on the long-gestating opera “Stranger Love,” in New York, April 29, 2023. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialDylan Mattingly, left, and Thomas Bartscherer, who collaborated on the long-gestating opera “Stranger Love,” in New York, April 29, 2023. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialDylan Mattingly, left, and Thomas Bartscherer, who collaborated on the long-gestating opera “Stranger Love,” in New York, April 29, 2023. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialDylan Mattingly, left, and Thomas Bartscherer, who collaborated on the long-gestating opera “Stranger Love,” in New York, April 29, 2023. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialDylan Mattingly, left, and Thomas Bartscherer, who collaborated on the long-gestating opera “Stranger Love,” in New York, April 29, 2023. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialDylan Mattingly, left, and Thomas Bartscherer, who collaborated on the long-gestating opera “Stranger Love,” in New York, April 29, 2023. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialDylan Mattingly, left, and Thomas Bartscherer, who collaborated on the long-gestating opera “Stranger Love,” in New York, April 29, 2023. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialDylan Mattingly, left, and Thomas Bartscherer, who collaborated on the long-gestating opera “Stranger Love,” in New York, April 29, 2023. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialKaty Mattingly, an executive secretary who lives alone in the home she bought three year ago, at her place in Ypsilanti, Mich., Nov. 12, 2022. (Sarah Rice/The New York Times)