1st February

Concert will begin at 19:00 hours GMT

Smyth's 'The Wreckers' with Spilger, Sprague, Eason and Losseau from Karlsruhe

Ethel Smyth's 'The Wreckers' is an opera in three acts composed to a libretto by Henry Brewster, telling of the plundering of ships by Cornish villagers. Tales of Cornish villagers who on stormy nights lured passing sailing ships onto their rugged coast were commonplace in the nineteenth century. The cargoes they plundered were regarded as legitimate reward for the hardships endured in this isolated and barren part of England. Performers:

Thirza: Dorothea Spilger.
Mark: Brett Sprague.
Avis: Martha Eason.
Jack: Florence Losseau.
Pascoe: Kihun Yoon.
Tallan: Klaus Schneider.
Lawrence: Armin Kolarczyk.
Harvey: Liangliang Zhao.

Baden State Opera Choir and Extra Choir. Badische Stattskapelle. Conductor: Georg Fritzsch.

Recorded September and November 2024.