The Wreckers (2015)
Overview
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.
Cast
Recommendations
The Pirates of Penzance
The Tales of Hoffmann
Ziegfeld Girl
The Testament of Ann Lee
A Night at the Opera
Maria
Hounddog
Fisherman's Friends
Falling for Figaro
One Chance
Taking Sides
Guava Island
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
Battle of the Year
Good Vibrations
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Bound for Glory
The Fighting Temptations
Yellow Submarine
Boychoir