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26 de may. de 2022 · Ethel Smyth’s opera “The Wreckers” opened the Glyndebourne Festival Opera last weekend, receiving its first-ever performance in the original French – libretto by Henry Brewster – and with many savage cuts restored. Its journey has been a long one: Smyth was repeatedly thwarted by war, misogynistic attitudes, musical conservatism, and ...
23 de may. de 2022 · Of her six stage works, the third, The Wreckers, has made most headway over the 120 years since it was written, winning support from Gustav Mahler (who wanted to conduct it), ...
The Wreckers performing "Rain" live in New York City
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23 de may. de 2022 · Smyth was adamant not to be known as a “woman composer”, but her gender undoubtedly affected the arc of her career. She wrote six operas between the 1890s and 1920s — The Wreckers was initially given a good showing by the esteemed English conductor Thomas Beecham — but it is Britten who is now known as Britain’s first significant composer of opera post-Purcell.
28 de may. de 2021 · THE WRECKERSDame Ethel SmythBard SummerScape Opera 2015Written by Dame Ethel Smyth, English composer and leader in the women’s suffrage movement, The Wrecker...
