Applications open for The Atlanta Opera’s 96-Hour Opera Project | EarRelevant

EarRelevant Staff | 21 DEC 2022

Atlanta, GA— The Atlanta Opera has announced that applications are now open for the second annual 96-Hour Opera Project, a composition competition and showcase featuring teams of composers and librettists from historically underrepresented communities.

Having completed and submitted new works based on one historical theme from this season’s story partner, the Atlanta History Center, participating teams will travel to Atlanta on June 8, 2023. They will spend four days collaborating with singers, pianists, and creatives, rehearsing and fine-tuning these works in advance of the final showcase on June 12 at Morehouse College at which attendance will be open to the public.

The competition will provide each composer/librettist team with travel, housing, singers, pianists, and space. The winning team will split a $10,000 prize, serving as the first installment on a commission to write a chamber opera for a future season at the Atlanta Opera. All other participating artists are guaranteed a $1,000 honorarium.

Judges will be announced at a later date.

The inaugural 96-Hour Opera Project highlighted six teams from across the globe, each presenting their unique story of Atlanta area history through opera.

The winning duo, composer Marcus Norris and librettist Adamma Ebo, blew audience and judges away with their entry, Go On With That Wind. The opera used dark humor to imagine the reactions of a Morehouse Glee Club singer invited to sing at a party celebrating the 1939 premier of the film Gone With The Wind.

This first iteration of the competition was also the subject of a 3-part docuseries produced by The Atlanta Opera Film Studio and Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) which aired on GPB stations across the state and streamed nationally on stream.atlantaopera.org and www.gpb.org.

Applications are now open and available at atlantaopera.org/competition. There is no application fee. ■

EXTERNAL LINKS:

The Atlanta Opera: atlantaopera.org.org
Atlanta History Center: https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com
Morehouse College: morehouse.edu
Georgia Public Broadcasting: gpb.org

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