Carlisle Floyd (born 1926 in Latta, South Carolina) is an American opera composer. Many of his works are based on themes from Southern states. His opera Susannah (1956) is considered to be his masterpiece, and it is regularly performed in the United States.

Major works

• Slow Dusk (1949)
• Susannah (1956)
• Wuthering Heights (1958)
• The Passion of Jonathan Wade (1962)
• The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair (1964) TV opera
• Of Mice and Men (1970)
• Flower and Hawk
• Bilby's Doll (1976)
• Willie Stark (1981)
• Cold Sassy Tree (2000) for the Houston Grand Opera and the San Diego Opera

External links

• Operas we would like to see again

1926 births | Living people | 20th century classical composers | American composers | Opera composers | Living classical composers | Members of The American Academy of Arts and Letters | National Medal of Arts recipients