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Love, lies and betrayal
- Ethyl Smyth’s opera The Wreckers is a tale of love, lies and betrayal among Cornish villagers who lure ships onto the rocks so they can be pillaged
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Therefore, when looking for a suitable theme for her third opera, it is little wonder that Smyth's thoughts should turn to this dramatic yet romantic subject. It was after a taking a walking tour in Cornwall in 1886 that the idea came to her, and for several years she visited places where the wrecking crimes were said to have been committed ...
Jul 13, 2021 · Tallan starts a song about the need for a wind to drive a ship onto their rocks so that they can all avoid starvation, and the villagers all get drinks and join in – clearly they are wreckers, surviving on the plunder from ships which have foundered on their rocks.
Laurent warns against jumping to conclusions and organises a small search party to find out who the traitor really is. The others whip themselves up in readiness for slaughter on the beach. The search party has split up along the coast with Tallan’s young son Jacquet pursuing Pasko in order to impress Avis.
The Wreckers is set amongst the legends of the Cornish coast, where it was thought that ships were deliberately led astray by the people who lived on the coast, so that they would wreck on the rocks and could be plundered.
Oct 18, 2020 · The theme for The Wreckers came from some walking trips that Smyth took across Cornwall, where she visited places where shipwrecks have happened. These dramatic scenes spurred Smyth on to use this idea and morph it into both a dramatic, but romantic opera.
May 23, 2022 · Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers brings the darker side of Englishness to Glyndebourne. Described as the most important English opera composed between Purcell and Britten, this is its first proper revival in a century.
May 23, 2022 · Henry Brewster’s text locates the action in the late 18th century in a Cornish community which mitigates its economic deprivation by extinguishing coastline alarm flares (the lighthouse keeper...
