The Wreckers (2022)
Les naufrageurs is a French-language opera in three acts composed by Dame Ethel Smyth to a libretto by Henry Brewster, telling of the plundering of ships by Cornish villagers. Completed in 1904, it was premiered in 1906 in Leipzig in a German translation, with cuts, before being championed by Sir Thomas Beecham and given performances in 1909 in London, now in an English translation as The Wreckers
Directors: Jonathan Haswell, Melly Still.
https://encore.glyndebourne.com/videos/the-wreckers-full-opera
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Philip Horst as Pasko / Pascoe |
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Karis Tucker as Thurza / Thirza |
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James Rutherford as Laurent / Lawrence |
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Rodrigo Porras Garulo as Marc / Mark |
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Lauren Fagan as Avis |
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Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts as Tallan |
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Marta Fontanals-Simmons as Jacquet / Jack |
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Donovan Singletary as Harvey |
| Directing | Jonathan Haswell | Director |
| Writing | Henry Brewster | Writer |
| Production | Emma Dixon | Producer |
| Sound | Ethel Smyth | Music |
| Directing | Melly Still | Director |
| Sound | Robin Ticciati | Music Director |