Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers brings the darker side of Englishness to Glyndebourne
Described as the most important English opera composed between Purcell and Britten, this is its first proper revival in a century.
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Emily Bootle
Emily Bootle is a sub-editor at the New Statesman.
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