Wuthering Heights (Floyd opera)

Wuthering Heights
Opera by Carlisle Floyd
Carlisle Floyd in 2004 with the National Medal of Arts
LibrettistFloyd
LanguageEnglish
Based onWuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Premiere
July 16, 1958 (1958-07-16)

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]

  1. ^ Howard Taubman (10 April 1959). "Opera: Floyd's Wuthering Heights". The New York Times. p. 22.