For The First Time, Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” Is Being Produced As She Wrote It In 1906

The English composer, now remembered primarily as a firebrand suffragette, and librettist Henry Brewster wrote this story (of Cornish villagers who survive by plundering shipwrecks) in French. But it was produced, with cuts, first in German, then in English, then not at all. This summer sees the original version’s… Read entire story.

Source: MUSIC – ArtsJournal