The Florentine’s Third and Reference Records First Opera Release!
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Florentine Opera Company • Milwaukee Symphony • Joseph Mechavich
We are very pleased to offer the world premiere recording of Carlisle Floyd‘s Wuthering Heights as our first opera release!
The GRAMMY®-winning Florentine Opera Company, supported by the Milwaukee Symphony, performed this work in concert and was recorded by Soundmirror of Boston to bring this 1958 composition to us as a 2-SACD set with full libretto.
Writers and reviewers of opera and classical vocal music are welcome to request a media copy as are radio stations that program vocal works.
Please contact me to request your copy. Should you prefer a digital download (44.1/WAV file) from the Naxos media portal, please contact Kelly Voigt.
Carlise Floyd celebrates his 90th birthday June 11, 2016, the day after The Florentine Opera’s Wuthering Heights is released.
Wisconsin media representatives and others are welcome to contact The Florentine Opera’s Richard Clark:
Richard Clark (Email)
Director of Marketing & Communications
414-219-5700 ext 213
Florentine Opera Company
930 E. Burleigh Street, Lower Level
Milwaukee, WI 53212
The liner notes and libretto, album artwork, audio sampler, and Press Release for this new release are attached to this email and we encourage you to download or save those now for your use.
Regards,
Jan Mancuso
Media Relations
Please be in touch: email | 1-800-336-8866
Carlisle Floyd: Wuthering Heights
An Opera in Three Acts
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Florentine Opera Company
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Mechavich, conductorStreet Date: June 10, 2016
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The Florentine Opera Company® brings American opera composer Carlisle Floyd’s operatic masterpiece, based on the classic English novel by Emily Brontë, to life. Floyd’s score takes you to the heart of Catherine and Heathcliffe’s devastating love story
Carlisle Floyd’s canon of operas is amongst the most performed by any living American opera composer, however four essential operas have never been commercially released. Wuthering Heights was first performed by Santa Fe Opera in 1958, but never recorded until now. With the composer acting as artistic advisor, this Florentine Opera premiere recording was made in January 2015 at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, in Brookfield, Wisconsin. It features conductor Joseph Mechavich, soprano Georgia Jarman (Cathy), baritone Kelly Markgraf (Heathcliff), soprano Heather Buck (Isabella), tenor Vale Rideout (Edgar), tenor Chad Shelton (Hindley), mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer (Nelly), tenor Frank Kelley (Joseph), The Florentine Opera Chorus and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Reference Recordings is proud to release this exceptional recording.
General Director William Florescu states, “This is a unique and exciting Florentine Opera recording. Carlisle Floyd’s Wuthering Heights, an unjustly neglected American gem, made its Florentine debut in this world premiere recording. We had the honor of welcoming Carlisle Floyd to guide this exceptional creative team and shape the concert and recording. Noele Stollmack (director of design and production), conductor Joseph Mechavich (conductor for the Florentine productions of La Traviata 2013 and Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah 2012), Blanton Alspaugh and John Newton, along with all of the production engineers and recording specialists from SoundMirror assembled their talents to bring this premiere recording and concert to life–for live audiences and the world to experience.”
Carlisle Floyd, 90 years of age in June 2016, is still creating new operas (his newest, Prince of Players, was presented to great acclaim by Houston Grand Opera in March 2016), and is intent on having commercial recordings of all his operas released during his lifetime. Describing the music of Wuthering Heightsas highly dramatic and quite melodic, Floyd has said he is thrilled to have it recorded. The Florentine has released plans to follow Wuthering Heights with recordings of Floyd’s Willie Stark and Bilby’s Doll.
Wuthering Heights was recorded and mastered by the team at Soundmirror, whose outstanding orchestral, solo, opera and chamber recordings have received more than 70 GRAMMY® nominations and awards.
Reference Recordings, founded in 1976, is based in San Francisco, with multiple GRAMMY® awards and a catalog that includes numerous American and international orchestras, ensembles and choruses. FRESH! is part of Reference Recordings’ mission to encourage unique and fine artists, and give them a strong platform for promotion and sales nationally and internationally.
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