Carlisle Floyd

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United States, Composer
June 11, 1926September, 30, 2021.

Carlisle Floyd was an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he has based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is based on a story from the Biblical Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect.

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