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Carlisle Floyd Quotes
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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| Birth: | 11th June, 1926 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Composer |
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Carlisle Floyd is an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah, is based on a story from the Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect.
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