Tag: Dame Ethel Smyth
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The Wreckers Storms Houston!
by Amy Zigler, PhD, Associate Professor of Music, Salem College 116 years after its premiere, Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers received its first-ever staging by a major American opera house. In keeping with its renewed focus on the ‘grand’ in Houston Grand Opera, the HGO production on Friday October 28, 2022 was a powerful tour-de-force,…
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Smyth’s Mass in Australia, Oct. 9!
We rarely blog on the weekends, but we wanted to make sure we mentioned the performance tomorrow (Sunday, Oct. 9) in Australia of Ethel Smyth’s Mass — it may in fact be the first performance of that monumental work in Australia, and it is very a rare all-Smyth concert (including overtures from her opera The Wreckers),…
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Link-Round-up August 8, 2022
Hope your week is off to a great start! The continuing push for women conductors, and Marin Alsop’s role in supporting more recognition, training and opportunities for women in the field is noted in this review of the “Breaking Barriers” Festival at Chicago’s Ravinia. And also this one. Pictured, Laura Jackson, Jeri Lynne Johnson, and…
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Link Round-Up: July 19, 2022
The music of Dame Ethel Smyth continues to draw more performances and recognition. Liane Curtis attended the moving performance of Smyth’s opera “The Wreckers” at the renowned Glyndebourne Festival, and offered this review. Glyndebourne’s video of the production will be available in August. And, a “semi-staged” version will be performed as part of The Proms…