Link Roundup: June 6, 2023

Link Roundup: June 6, 2023

Readers have bemoaned the lapse of our Link Roundup feature, SO, we are going to try and get back in the swing of it!  It just seems like there is SO much important news sometimes, and we can’t claim to have a complete grasp on it — but here are a FEW...
Smyth’s Der Wald in forthcoming recording!

Smyth’s Der Wald in forthcoming recording!

By   Dr. Amy Zigler, an Ethel Smyth scholar and Associate Professor of Music at Salem College. She will be speaking about the recording, the female characters, and issues of agency in Der Wald at the Operatic Feminisms symposium on March 25, 2023, at Columbia...
Hidden Herstory: An 18th-Century Royal Musical Dynasty

Hidden Herstory: An 18th-Century Royal Musical Dynasty

By Elizabeth De Brito Have you heard of this amazing classical-era royal musical dynasty from Prussia? Two generations of remarkable royals who, through their leadership and musical talent, shaped much of 18th-century German artistic culture and strongly influenced...
Smyth’s Mass in Australia, Oct. 9!

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...
A Canadian opera performed and problematized in new film

A Canadian opera performed and problematized in new film

A new film, The Lake / nx̌aʔx̌aʔitkʷ , is being screened in Vancouver, BC on May 5 and 12, as part of the DOXA Film Festival. The film may also be viewed online, but only in Canada! (Those who view online have 11 days to start watching once the material is available)....