Walter Meyer wrote:

>Mitch Friedfeld:
>
>>The program notes said that Baby Doe was one of the three most significant
>>American operas, with Porgy and Bess and I can't remember the third.  ...
>
>Floyd's *Susannah* might also be a candidate.

I think Walter and Stephanie win the prize.  As two other listers
mentioned, it depends on who's compiling the list!  I E-mailed Utah Opera
to seek their help, but they said that such a passage was not in their
program notes.  I think I might have read it in a bookstore a few minutes
before the opera began.  Whatever the third one was, the Utah Opera's
Ballad of Baby Doe was a winner.

Mitch Friedfeld