Susannah, the Glossary
Susannah is an opera in two acts by the American composer Carlisle Floyd, who wrote the libretto and music while a member of the piano faculty at Florida State University.[1]
Table of Contents
48 relations: Apocrypha, Appalachia, Beni Montresor, Brussels, Capitol Records, Carlisle Floyd, Cheryl Studer, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Diana Soviero, English Touring Opera, Faith Esham, Feminism, Florida State University, Frank Corsaro, Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, Hagen Theatre, Jerry Hadley, John La Bouchardière, John Lankston, José Quintero, Joy Clements, Karan Armstrong, Kelly Kaduce, Lee Venora, Mac, Birmingham, Mack Harrell, Maralin Niska, McCarthyism, Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera National Company, Michael Devlin (bass-baritone), Music of the United States, Nancy Shade, Norman Treigle, Opera, Opera News, Phyllis Curtin, Phyllis Treigle, Porgy and Bess, Renée Fleming, Rhiannon Giddens, Samuel Ramey, Susanna (Book of Daniel), Tennessee, Theater Oberhausen, Video Artists International, Virgin Classics, World's fair.
- 1955 operas
- Operas based on the Bible
- Operas by Carlisle Floyd
- Plays set in Tennessee
Apocrypha
Apocrypha are biblical or related writings not forming part of the accepted canon of scripture.
Appalachia
Appalachia is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.
Beni Montresor
Beni Montresor (31 March 1926 – 11 October 2001) was a versatile Italian artist, opera and film director, set designer, author and children's book illustrator.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Capitol Records
Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.
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Carlisle Floyd
Carlisle Sessions Floyd (June 11, 1926September 30, 2021) was an American composer primarily known for his operas.
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Cheryl Studer
Cheryl Studer (born October 24, 1955) is an American dramatic soprano who has sung at many of the world's foremost opera houses.
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Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin.
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Diana Soviero
Diana Soviero (born March 19, 1946, in Jersey City) is an American operatic soprano of international stature, a recipient of the Richard Tucker Award in 1979.
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English Touring Opera
English Touring Opera (ETO) is an opera company in the United Kingdom founded in 1979 under the name Opera 80 by the then-existing Arts Council of Great Britain.
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Faith Esham
Faith Esham (born August 6, 1948) is an American soprano and college professor of voice.
Feminism
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.
Florida State University
Florida State University (FSU or, more commonly, Florida State) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.
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Frank Corsaro
Frank Corsaro (December 22, 1924, New York City, New York – November 11, 2017, Suwanee, GeorgiaRobert Viagas) was one of America's foremost stage directors of opera and theatre.
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Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961.
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Hagen Theatre
Hagen Theatre (German: italic) is a performance venue in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Jerry Hadley
Jerry Hadley (June 16, 1952 – July 18, 2007) was an American operatic tenor.
John La Bouchardière
John La Bouchardière is a British opera, film and television director.
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John Lankston
John Lankston (1934 - July 12, 2018) was an American tenor and actor who had a career in opera and musical theatre from the 1950s through the 2000s.
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José Quintero
José Benjamín Quintero (15 October 1924 – 26 February 1999) was a Panamanian theatre director, producer and pedagogue best known for his interpretations of the works of Eugene O'Neill.
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Joy Clements
Joy Clements (née Joyce Marie Albrecht; April 29, 1932 – October 24, 2005) was an American lyric coloratura soprano who had a substantial opera and concert career from 1956 through the late 1970s.
Karan Armstrong
Karan Armstrong (December 14, 1941 – September 28, 2021) was an American operatic soprano, who was celebrated as a singing actress.
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Kelly Kaduce
Kelly Kaduce (born 1974) is an American soprano.
Lee Venora
Lee Venora (born February 16, 1932) is an American operatic soprano and musical theater actress.
Mac, Birmingham
Midlands Arts Centre also known as MAC is a non-profit contemporary arts centre situated in Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England.
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Mack Harrell
Mack Kendree Harrell, Jr. (October 8, 1909 — January 29, 1960) was an American operatic and concert baritone vocalist who was regarded as one of the greatest American-born lieder singers of his generation.
Maralin Niska
Maralin Niska (November 16, 1926 – July 9, 2016) was an American operatic soprano.
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McCarthyism
McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Metropolitan Opera National Company
The Metropolitan Opera National Company (MONC) was a short lived American opera company that operated from 1965 to 1967 as a second touring company of the Metropolitan Opera that featured American and Canadian artists in their early stages of career development.
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Michael Devlin (bass-baritone)
Michael Devlin (born November 27, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American opera singer who is internationally known as a bass-baritone and singing-actor.
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Music of the United States
The United States' multi-ethnic population is reflected through a diverse array of styles of music.
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Nancy Shade
Nancy Shade (born May 31, 1946, in Rockford, Illinois) is an American spinto soprano, best known as a singing-actress.
Norman Treigle
Norman Treigle (né Adanelle Wilfred Treigle (March 6, 1927February 16, 1975) was an American operatic bass-baritone, who was acclaimed for his great abilities as a singing-actor, and specialized in roles that evoked villainy and terror.
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Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
Opera News
Opera News was an American classical music magazine.
Phyllis Curtin
Phyllis Curtin (née Smith; December 3, 1921 – June 5, 2016) was an American soprano and academic teacher who had an active career in operas and concerts from the early 1950s through the 1980s.
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Phyllis Treigle
Phyllis Treigle (born May 6, 1960) is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and is a noted American soprano, and the daughter of the bass-baritone Norman Treigle.
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Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. Susannah and Porgy and Bess are English-language operas and operas set in the United States.
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Renée Fleming
Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions.
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Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician known for her eclectic folk music.
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Samuel Ramey
Samuel Ramey (born March 28, 1942) is an American operatic bass.
Susanna (Book of Daniel)
Susanna ("lily"), also called Susanna and the Elders, is a narrative included in the Book of Daniel (as chapter 13) by the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
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Tennessee
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Theater Oberhausen
Theater Oberhausen is a theatre in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Video Artists International
Video Artists International (VAI), is an independent American DVD-label specializing in classical music performances founded in 1983, and based in Pleasantville, NY.
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Virgin Classics
Virgin Classics was a record label founded in 1988 as part of Richard Branson's Virgin Records.
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World's fair
A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations.
See also
1955 operas
- Caoyuan Zhi Ge
- Du style galant au style méchant
- Griffelkin
- Il cappello di paglia di Firenze
- Irische Legende
- Jūratė and Kastytis (opera)
- Pilėnai (opera)
- Reuben, Reuben (opera)
- Salawat Yulayev (opera)
- Susannah
- Taras Bulba (opera)
- The Midsummer Marriage
Operas based on the Bible
- Christus (opera)
- Ciro in Babilonia
- Dèbora e Jaéle
- David (Milhaud)
- David et Jonathas
- Der Thurm zu Babel
- Die Königin von Saba
- Die Maccabäer
- Die ersten Menschen
- Esther (Meyerowitz opera)
- Esther (Weisgall opera)
- Hérodiade
- Hagith (opera)
- IYOV
- Il diluvio universale
- Jephté
- Jephtas Gelübde
- Joseph (opera)
- Judith (Matthus)
- L'enfant prodigue (Auber)
- La mort d'Abel
- La mort d'Adam
- Mosè in Egitto
- Moses (Rubinstein)
- Moses (Skoryk)
- Moses und Aron
- Nabucco
- Noé (opera)
- Salome (opera)
- Samson and Delilah (opera)
- Saul og David
- Susannah
- The Burning Fiery Furnace
- The Cave (opera)
- The Flood (Stravinsky)
- The Gospel According to the Other Mary
- The Last Supper (opera)
- The Prodigal Son (Britten)
- Tobias and the Angel (opera)
- Wake (opera)
Operas by Carlisle Floyd
- Bilby's Doll
- Cold Sassy Tree (opera)
- Flower and Hawk
- Markheim (opera)
- Of Mice and Men (opera)
- Susannah
- The Passion of Jonathan Wade
- Willie Stark
- Wuthering Heights (Floyd opera)
Plays set in Tennessee
- All the Way Home (play)
- Cementville
- Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
- Susannah
- The Death of Bessie Smith
- The Hot Wing King
- The Mountaintop
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah
Also known as Susannah (opera).