The title character of this composer's best-known opera sings the wildly famous aria, "Ain't it a Pretty Night" after bathing in a creek reserved for baptisms leading her to be ostracized by the repressive community of New Hope Valley, Tennessee.
This composer adapted a Robert Louis Stevenson story about a man who kills a pawnbroker on Christmas Eve for his one act opera Markheim. His last opera features a chorus of villagers singing the hymn "Blest Be the Tie That Bonds" at the end of the first act to deride Rucker Lattimore's plan to marry the young Love Simpson just two weeks after his widow died. In addition to writing Bilby's Doll and  Cold Sassy Tree this composer drew on literary sources for his operas Willie Stark and Of Mice and Men. The title character of this composer's best-known opera sings the wildly famous aria, "Ain't it a Pretty Night" after bathing in a creek reserved for baptisms leading her to be ostracized by the repressive community of New Hope Valley, Tennessee. For 15 points, name this operatic composer, who created the most frequently staged American opera in history, Susannah.
This composer adapted a Robert Louis Stevenson story about a man who kills a pawnbroker on Christmas Eve for his one act opera Markheim.
{Carlisle Floyd}