Carlisle Floyd (Composer)
Born: 11th June 1926, Latta, South Carolina, United States
Nationality: American
Carlisle Sessions Floyd was an American composer primarily known for his dozen or so operas. These stage works, for which he wrote the librettos, typically engage with themes from the American South, particularly the Post-civil war South, the Great Depression and rural life. His best known opera, Susannah, is based on a story from the Biblical Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary rural Tennessee, and written for a Southern dialect. It was premiered at Florida State University in 1955, with Phyllis Curtin in the title role. When it was staged at the New York City Opera the following year, the reception was initially mixed; some considered it a masterpiece, while others degraded it as a 'folk opera'.
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- Ain't It a Pretty Night (from Susannah) (3)
- Citizen of Paradise (1)
- Early Songs (3) (1)
- Hear me, O Lord (from Susannah) (1)
- In Celebration - An Overture for Orchestra (1)
- Markheim (1)
- Prince of Players (1)
- Soul of Heaven (1)
- Susannah (3)
- The Mystery - Five Songs of Motherhood (2)
- The Sojourner & Mollie Sinclair (1)
- The trees on the mountains (Susannah) (2)
- Wuthering Heights (1)
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