Wuthering_Heights_(Floyd)

<i>Wuthering Heights</i> (Floyd opera)

Wuthering Heights (Floyd opera)

1958 opera by Carlisle Floyd

For other uses, see Wuthering Heights (disambiguation).

Wuthering Heights is an opera in a prologue and three acts with music and a libretto by Carlisle Floyd. The work is adapted from Emily Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. The opera premiered at the Santa Fe Opera on July 16, 1958, in a production directed by Irving Guttman. A revised version of the work was performed at the New York City Opera in 1959 with a cast that notably included Phyllis Curtin, Patricia Neway, and Frank Porretta.[1]

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Recording

Wuthering Heights Georgia Jarman Kelly Markgraf Florentine Opera Company; Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Mechavich Reference Recordings: FR-721

References

  1. [1]
    Howard Taubman (10 April 1959). "Opera: Floyd's Wuthering Heights". The New York Times. p. 22.
  2. [2]
    "Wuthering Heights". santafeopera.org. Retrieved 18 February 2015.


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