What is Carlisle Floyd?
[[File:CarlisleFloyd.jpg|right|200px]] '''Carlisle Sessions Floyd''' (June 11, 1926{{spnd}}September 30, 2021) was an American opera composer. Many of his songs were based on his life living in the [[American South]]. His best known opera, ''[[Susannah]]'' (1955), is based on a story from the Biblical [[Apocrypha]]. He was born in [[Latta, South Carolina]].<ref name=nytobit>{{Cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|author-link=Robert D. McFadden|date=2021-09-30|title=Carlisle Floyd, Whose Operas Spun Fables of the South, Dies at 95|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/music/carlisle-floyd-dead.html|access-date=2021-09-30|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Floyd died in [[Tallahassee, Florida]] on September 30, 2021, at the age of 95.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Salazar|first=Francisco|date=2021-09-30|title=Obituary: American Opera Composer Carlisle Floyd Dies at 95|url=https://operawire.com/obituary-american-opera-composer-carlisle-floyd-dies-at-95/|access-date=2021-09-30|website=Opera Wire|language=en-US}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Floyd, Carlisle}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:American composers]] [[Category:Writers from South Carolina]] {{US-bio-stub}}