Steven Schwartz wrote:

>I haven't seen Of Mice and Men.  I have, however, attended productions of
>two other Floyd operas: Markheim and All the King's Men.  Strong, dramatic
>subjects to which the music added absolutely nothing.  In that sense,
>Susanna is musically the strongest Floyd opera I've heard.

*Susannah* is going to be one of the operas in next season's Washington
Opera series at the Kennedy Center (along w/ Tosca, Rigoletto, Le Cid,
I Puritani, Julius Caesar, and Otello).  As an inducement to renew
subscriptions they send current subscribers a generous CD w/ recorded
selections from the following season's operas.  The two exerpts from
*Susannah* ("Ain't it a pretty night?" and "Come, sinner, tonight's the
night") from the Nagano/Studer/Ramey performance sounded quite moving and
interesting.

Walter Meyer