Ethel Smyth
Glyndebourne 2022 season focus on women composers
- 4th August 2021
- News
- Ailie Robertson
- Anna Appleby
- Ben Glassberg
- Cecilia Livingston
- Ethel Smyth
- Floris Visser
- Francesco Micheli
- Glyndebourne
- Johann Stuckenbruck
- Jonathan Cohen
- Jordan de Souza
- Laurent Pelly
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Mariame Clement
- Melanie Wilson
- Melly Still
- Michael Grandage
- Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Psappha Ensemble
- Robin Ticciati
- Samantha Fernando
- Sinéad O’ Neill
- Stéphanie d'Oustrac
- Stephen Langridge
- The Wreckers
Works by six female composers, comprising two new operas and a rarely performed influential work, will be staged at Glyndebourne in 2022. Pioneering feminist composer Ethel Smyth’s work The Wreckers will open Glyndebourne Festival 2022. The Company described the opera as a powerful, cinematic psychodrama set on the Cornish coast, the most successful of Smyth’s…