Prince of Players

Sjoerd Staal — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

It is with great pleasure and pride that I congratulate the Florentine opera and soundmirror on this beautiful recording. It is the culmination of all the hard work and love that many people poured into making this opera a success. From its very beginning, Prince of Players has been a joy for me. back in 2011, I was flipping through tv channels and stopped on an interesting movie called Stage Beauty, based on Jeffery Hatcher’s play “the compleat Female stage beauty” and directed by sir Richard Eyre. The operatic potential struck me immediately. opera deals with crisis, and this was an enormous crisis in a young man’s life. I felt there was something combustible in the story, and that’s the basis of a good libretto.

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Carlisle Floyd – Wuthering Heights

Sjoerd Staal — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Of all my operas,Wuthering Heights, my second full length opera, had probably the most singular beginning. With all the others, I received the request,for a new opera by the commissioner and the subject matter was determined more or less by me, in the case of Wuthering Heights, it was entirely specified by the commissioner, hand in hand with my publisher, and I reluctantly agreed to the subject matter.
The reason for this was what is interesting and unique: Phyllis Curtin, the remarkable soprano who had introduced my first opera, Susannah, to the music world via the New York City Opera, had decided to do a second Town Hall recital and asked me to do a concert aria for her program. I immediately agreed since her performing Susannah had successfully launched my career as an opera composer, and I was (and am) forever happily indebted to her for that.

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Prince of Players

Carlisle Floyd – Wuthering Heights