Floyd's Susannah: Hopeless in New Hope, featuring Renee Fleming
b'When the great American composer Carlisle Floyd wrote his first full-length opera,\\xa0Susannah, back in the 1950s, he had no way of knowing how the Biblical themes of shame, blame and lust would resonate today.\\nIn this special episode of Aria Code, host Rhiannon Giddens joins soprano Ren\\xe9e Fleming, writer and stage director Thomas Holliday, and feminist writer Leora Tanenbaum to consider the haunting folk aria \\u201cThe Trees on the Mountains,\\u201d and the devastating loss of innocence at the heart of the story. You\\u2019ll hear Fleming\\u2019s performance from the Metropolitan Opera\\u2019s 1999 production of\\xa0Susannah, as well as Rhiannon Giddens\\u2019 version from her new album,\\xa0there is no Other.'