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Wuthering Heights (Floyd opera)
1958 opera by Carlisle Floyd / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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Wuthering Heights | |
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Opera by Carlisle Floyd | |
![]() Carlisle Floyd in 2004 with the National Medal of Arts | |
Librettist | Floyd |
Language | English |
Based on | Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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