The Atlanta Opera announces finalists for The 96-Hour Opera Project | EarRelevant

EarRelevant Staff | 12 APR 2022

Atlanta, GA— The Atlanta Opera announced today the 12 finalists for its 96-Hour Opera Project: Stories that Resonate! showcase and competition.

The competition pairs those dozen composers and librettists into six teams:

Johanny Navarro, composer & Deborah Mouton, librettist
Marcus Norris, composer & Adamma Ebo, librettist
Jorge Sosa, composer & Alejandra Martinez, librettist
Carlos Castro, composer & Diana Solomon-Glover, librettist
Roydon Tse, composer & Marcus Yi, librettist
Saman Shahi, composer & Isabella Dawis, librettist

After creating entirely new and refreshing 10-minute operas over eight days, these six teams of composers and librettists will gather at Morehouse College on June 20 to showcase them at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center.

The competition is explicitly designed for BIPOC composers and librettists from historically underrepresented communities who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, Asian-American, Pacific Islander, Arab-American, Latin-American, or other communities of color, including artists outside the United States.

Each creative team receives a story drawn from Georgia’s past and present based on materials provided by this year’s Stories that Resonate partners, representative nonprofit organizations with storytelling at their core. Stories will be provided in advance so that teams can spend time on both research and creation.

Morehouse College will host the finals in partnership with The Atlanta Opera. Free tickets to see the six teams in the June 20 showcase at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College, School of Music are now available to the general public. Registration is required to reserve tickets. ■