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“Susannah” is an opera in two acts by the American composer Carlisle Floyd, who wrote the libretto and music while a member of the piano faculty at Florida State University. 

Floyd adapted the story from the Apocryphal tale of “Susannah and the Elders,” though the latter story has a more positive ending. 

The opera’s story focuses on 18-year-old Susannah Polk, an innocent girl who is targeted as a sinner in the small mountain town of New Hope Valley, in the southern state of Tennessee. 

The opera was awarded the New York Music Critics Circle Award for Best New Opera in 1956 and was chosen to represent American music and culture at the World’s Fair in Brussels in 1958.

And now, “Susannah” has made its way to The Delaware Valley Opera Center in beautiful Lake Huntington, NY. 

As for the opera’s inspiration, “Susanna and the Elders” is a narrative included in the Book of Daniel by t