Written by Dame Ethel Smyth, English composer and leader in the women’s suffrage movement, The Wreckers was first performed in Germany in 1906 and was mounted in the composer’s homeland in 1909. This powerful three-act opera about piracy, love, and betrayal in a community of religious fanatics received its U.S. premiere in 2015 at Bard SummerScape in a penetrating production directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, with the American Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein.
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Katharine Goeldner
Thirza
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Peter Van Derick
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Thaddeus Strassberger Director · Henry Brewster Writer Ethel Smyth Writer
United States release July 24, 2015 · Produced in United States
Production
Bard Summerscape Opera
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United States
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English
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English
Release dates
United States · July 24, 2015
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