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.
- Director
- Thaddeus Strassberger
- Also credited
- Thaddeus Strassberger Katharine Goeldner Sky Ingram Louis Otey Neal Cooper Michael Mayes
- Released
- 2015
- Runtime
- 2h 13m
- Certificate
- Language
- English
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