If there is one myth that the year 2020 has killed and buried for good, it is the idea that “woke” culture war issues are luxury issues which we only obsess about when we have nothing better to worry about. If a pandemic that kills over 60,000 people in Britain, grinds much of the country to a halt, and shaves a tenth off our economic output, is still not enough to convince our woke culture warriors to give us a break – nothing is.
Carlisle Floyd is the founding father of American Opera
Floyd is the the first US composer to let go of the coattails of Europe, with his libretti rooted in the harsh realities of southern American life.