Wuthering Heights: a musical drama - Opera Vocal Score by Carlisle Floyd 1961

Title: Wuthering Heights: a musical drama in a prologue and three acts - Vocal Score by the Composer

Author: Carlisle Floyd

Description: Card covers show light edgewear, scuffing along edges of spine; small split at head of spine. Title page has a new price written in, else interior is clean and free of marking. Four pages of photographs from the Santa Fe, New York City and Chautauqua Opera stage-performances. 286, [2] pages. 12 x 9 inches.

Original 1961 issue of the vocal score for Floyd Carlisle's opera, based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. It was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera and it premiered on July 16, 1958. A revised version of the work was performed at the New York City Opera on April 9, 1959. Both performances cast the renowned soprano Phyllis Curtin as Cathy.

Includes cast credits for both the World Premier at Santa Fe and the New York Premier. The last page lists several other Floyd scores, with ''Death Came Knocking'' (1961) being the latest.

Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Place: [New York]
Year: 1961

Keywords: opera, vocal score,