Since its first performance in Tallahassee in 1955, Carlisle Floyd 's opera has had countless stagings in the United
States. This new production at the Met is just the latest and is the work's first broadcast in the United
Kingdom. The action is set in New Hope Valley, Tennessee, and this story of mountain valley intolerance is related to that told in the Apocryphal Book of Susanna. Royd's word-setting combines the natural inflexions of speech with lyrical arias and music with a traditional
American sound.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Conlon
Act
8.15 New York Stories
Another in the series of outsider perspectives on life in the big city. Caribbean-born novelist Elizabeth
Nunez compares the impact of the landscape on her childhood home with the impact of the cityscape on her adopted one.
8.45 Act 2