Perspectives S36 / Ep37: Forsyth County is Flooding with the Joy of Lake Lanier

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. Joining us on Perspectives are the creative genius' behind the story and the music - writer / director Adamma Ebo and her fiancé' Marcus Norris. Their 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 … It premieres on June 15, 2024 at 8 PM. The performance will be at the Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center on the Morehouse College campus. The opera also reflects an environmental and spiritual retribution by unknown forces for the lake's creation. The opera is sung in English and includes explicit language.