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It’s been suggested that The Wreckers is the most important English opera between Purcell and Britten. Well, between Sullivan and Vaughan Williams, maybe.
- Richard Bratby
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.
May 25, 2022 · Unfortunately, the flower-power-era setting with its hippie hairstyles and flared trousers is overplayed and the comedy, with sexed-up surtitles, turns too broad. The best reason for catching this...
- Richard Fairman
The opera was given at the Stadttheater Gießen, Germany, in May 2007 under a new German title, Strandräuber, or Beach Robbers, conducted by Carlos Spierer. It also received a concert performance by the American Symphony Orchestra in September that year, marking its United States premiere.
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.
- Emily Bootle
Jul 27, 2015 · Smyth’s most important dramatic work is considered to be “The Wreckers,” written between 1902 and 1904 for the Leipzig Opera to a libretto by Henry Brewster. On Friday it received its first...
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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.
