Pre-show: 7:00pm EST / Performance: 8:00pm EST

Music & Lyrics: Marcus Norris
Book & Story: Adamma Ebo
World Premiere Performance

Selected as winner of the inaugural 96-Hour Opera Project Showcase in 2022, Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier) is the first new opera launched from the annual competition. The one-act dark comedy explores some of Georgia’s terrifying, uncomfortable, and uncanny happenings at Lake Lanier in Forsyth County, Georgia. In what might just be a modern-day ghost story: a private detective and a witch, who claims to be connected to spirits are hired to uncover a weird supernatural mystery happening—puddles. Everywhere …

Sung in English
Ray Charles Performing Arts Center
Performance runtime: approximately 75 minutes—with no intermission