There has been some discussion of Smyth, and this work in next season in other threads (I can't see a thread in the Composers section of the.
Surely the revival of this work deserves its own thread with its name evident? (I thought).
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I’ll be lured back to Glyndebourne for “The Wreckers” – runs from 21 May 2022 to 24 June – not sure if there is any hope for a Proms performance with that last performance date – I presume not (even if it fitted pan-BBC audience profile “objectives”).
hmmm ...........Actually, reading the email text etc and the Y Tube (below) it does tick a few current BBC boxes, and its quite a moment in British Opera history. OK, performed in French, but still, even so – dare one hope – the BBC might even broadcast it on TV?
This from Glyndebourne today:
Surely the revival of this work deserves its own thread with its name evident? (I thought).
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I’ll be lured back to Glyndebourne for “The Wreckers” – runs from 21 May 2022 to 24 June – not sure if there is any hope for a Proms performance with that last performance date – I presume not (even if it fitted pan-BBC audience profile “objectives”).
hmmm ...........Actually, reading the email text etc and the Y Tube (below) it does tick a few current BBC boxes, and its quite a moment in British Opera history. OK, performed in French, but still, even so – dare one hope – the BBC might even broadcast it on TV?
This from Glyndebourne today:
Why not to miss this production
Glyndebourne’s production will be the first ever staging of the opera’s original French-language version, and the first professional, major-house staging in our lifetime. It will also be the first time the Festival has staged an opera by a woman – and not just any woman: a bisexual feminist, who was imprisoned for suffragette activism.
With its sweeping musical soundscapes, passionate love story, and unflinching portrait of fear, groupthink and mob mentality, this is an important work of 20th century opera.
The production sees the welcome return of director Melly Still, whose inventive and visually striking productions of Rusalka and The Cunning Little Vixen were much loved by the Festival audience and critics alike.
French mezzo Clémentine Margaine and Mexican tenor Rodrigo Porras Garulo will play the doomed lovers Thirza and Mark, leading an international cast that also includes Lauren Fagan as the jealous Avis and Markus Brück as stern pastor Pascoe. Robin Ticciati conducts.
In this short film, Alexandra Coghlan describes British composer Ethel Smyth's 'powerful, evocative tragedy'. Find out more about the background to this opera and hear from those involved in this much-anticipated new staging, including director Melly Still, Glyndebourne Music Director and conductor of The Wreckers, Robin Ticciati, and Glyndebourne Artistic Director Stephen Langridge.
Video: Introducing… The Wreckers
Glyndebourne’s production will be the first ever staging of the opera’s original French-language version, and the first professional, major-house staging in our lifetime. It will also be the first time the Festival has staged an opera by a woman – and not just any woman: a bisexual feminist, who was imprisoned for suffragette activism.
With its sweeping musical soundscapes, passionate love story, and unflinching portrait of fear, groupthink and mob mentality, this is an important work of 20th century opera.
The production sees the welcome return of director Melly Still, whose inventive and visually striking productions of Rusalka and The Cunning Little Vixen were much loved by the Festival audience and critics alike.
French mezzo Clémentine Margaine and Mexican tenor Rodrigo Porras Garulo will play the doomed lovers Thirza and Mark, leading an international cast that also includes Lauren Fagan as the jealous Avis and Markus Brück as stern pastor Pascoe. Robin Ticciati conducts.
In this short film, Alexandra Coghlan describes British composer Ethel Smyth's 'powerful, evocative tragedy'. Find out more about the background to this opera and hear from those involved in this much-anticipated new staging, including director Melly Still, Glyndebourne Music Director and conductor of The Wreckers, Robin Ticciati, and Glyndebourne Artistic Director Stephen Langridge.
Video: Introducing… The Wreckers
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