The Atlanta Opera has announced its 2024 96-Hour Opera Festival. The event will feature the world premiere of “Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier),” which won the 2022 competition. The opera will be staged by Tinashe Kajese-Bolden and conducted by Chaowen Ting. It stars Kevin Thompson (Church Jenkins), Minka Wiltz (Odella), Andrew Gilstrap (Mayor John Johns), Tiffany Uzoije (Butter), and Marnie Breckenridge. The opera’s {…}

The Atlanta Opera has announced that composer Dave Ragland and librettist Selda Sahin have been named the winners of their second annual 96-Hour Opera Project. The challenge saw a number of teams stage new, 10-minute operas over the course of four days. Ragland and Sahin’s work, “Steele Roots,” follows Carrie Steele Logan, 19th-Century Black Woman whose legacy of serving orphans {…}

The Atlanta Opera has announced the five creative teams selected to participate in its second annual 96-Hour Opera Project. The composer/librettist teams are: Jorge Sosa and Alejandro Martinez, Omar Najmi and Catherine Yu, Dave Ragland and Selda Sahin, Edward Shilts and Laura Barati, and Nathan Felix and Anita Gonzalez. The stories for the opera will be drawn from the lives {…}