Carlisle Floyd

Carlisle Floyd (born 1926 in Latta, South Carolina) is an American opera composer. Many of his works are based on themes from the South. His opera Susannah (1955) is considered to be his masterpiece, and it is regularly performed in the United States. Aside from his theatre works, he composed a "solo cantata on biblical texts," Pilgrimage, which was premiered (with Norman Treigle as the soloist) in 1960, at Syracuse University.

Major works
Slow Dusk (1949)
Susannah (1955)
Wuthering Heights (1958)
The Passion of Jonathan Wade (1962)
The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair (1963)
Markheim (1966)
Of Mice and Men (1970)
Flower and Hawk (1972)
Bilby's Doll (1976)
Willie Stark (1981)
Cold Sassy Tree (2000)

Discography
Susannah (Curtin, Cassilly, Treigle; Andersson, 1962) [live] VAI
Susannah (Studer, Hadley, Ramey; Nagano, 1993-94) Virgin Classics
Pilgrimage: excerpts (Treigle; Torkanowsky, 1971) Orion
The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair (Neway, Treigle; Rudel, 1963) VAI
Markheim (Schuh, Treigle; Andersson, 1966) [live] VAI
Of Mice and Men (Futral, Griffey, Hawkins; Summers, 2002) [live] Albany Records
Cold Sassy Tree (Rachette; Summers, 2000) [live] Albany Records