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Wikipedia, 2021-10-01
Information trouvée : Carlisle Sessions Floyd (June 11, 1926 – September 30, 2021) was an American opera
composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he based many of his works on themes from
living in the American South. His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is based on a
story from the Biblical Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and
is written for a Southern dialect.