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Carlisle Floyd’s “Wuthering Heights” is Now Available!
Our First Ever Opera Release! Florentine Opera Company Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Joseph Mechavich, conductor Buy It Today! Reference Recordings Amazon iTunes ArkivMusic The Florentine Opera Company® brings American opera composer Carlisle Floyd’s operatic masterpiece, based on the classic English novel by Emily Brontë, to life. Floyd’s score takes you to the heart of Catherine and Heathcliffe’s devastating love story. Carlisle Floyd’s canon of operas is amongst the most performed by any living American opera composer,…
What Critics Have Said about Carlisle Floyd’s Wuthering Heights
A “throwback” 1993 review from a performance of Carlisle Floyd’s Wuthering Heights in The Christian Science Monitor: “American composer Carlisle Floyd has wrapped music admirably around the Bronte story. He gives the drama added intensity with a score that is timed to the characters’ moments of passion, scorn, and rage. The music is stark and brooding, but for a contemporary piece (it was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera in 1958), it is multilayered enough…
Carlisle Floyd’s Wuthering Heights a “Powerful Representation”
“Wuthering Heights is one of the few operas by Carlisle Floyd that isn’t based on an explicitly American story. Emily Brontë’s novel is set in Yorkshire, amid the moors that give the tale its famous atmosphere. But whether it’s English gothic or Southern (American) gothic, Floyd has a way with stories drenched in melodrama and mysticism. … But the real star here is conductor Joseph Mechavich, who guided the orchestra and voices through Floyd’s often…
TheaterByte Reviews Wuthering Heights!
Lawrence Devoe reviews the upcoming Florentine Opera recording of Carlisle Floyd’s Wuthering Heights: An Opera In Three Acts: “Maestro Joseph Mechavich leads his Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the choral forces of the Florentine Opera Company, one of America’s oldest such vocal organizations, in a precedent setting performance that will make listeners unfamiliar with this work sit up and take notice. Composer Floyd writes beautiful vocal lines and the cast led by stunning soprano Jarman takes…
The Evolution of Wuthering Heights
Carlisle Floyd discusses the evolution of his Wuthering Heights Opera with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “‘Phyllis Curtin, who later did Catherine in the original production and was in the ‘Susannah’ premiere as well, came to me and asked me to write an aria for her, a request I was happy to accept,’ Floyd said, explaining that this was in the mid-1950s and that she was working on a Town Hall recital program and wanted a…