Carlisle Floyd
Carlisle Floyd
Carlisle Floydis 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, is based on a story from the Biblical Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth11 June 1926
CityLatta, SC
CountryUnited States of America
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I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the history-book version we have come to believe.
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If you are surrounded by colleagues you trust, and if you can use their comments and responses creatively, I think it's tremendous.
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I don't know how any of my operas will play in 20 years. It will have a lot to do with the fashions of the time and what people respond to.
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When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.