Floyd’s deeply affecting opera based on Emily Brontë’s novel tells of two remarkable characters, Cathy and Heathcliff, whose all-consuming love affair ultimately wreaks havoc not only on their lives, but on the lives of those around them. Cathy and Heathcliff, childhood companions, fall in love. Their disparate social statuses lead them on divergent paths, and Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights. When he returns three years later a wealthy man of the world, Cathy has married and refuses his advances. When he in turn marries another, Cathy cannot go on living and dies in Heathcliff’s arms. In the final scene, Heathcliff asks the ghost of Cathy to haunt him forever. The opera’s score conveys the windswept Yorkshire moors and the passionate, rebellious nature of the doomed lovers.