What you thought of The Wreckers
Read a selection of press reviews and audience reactions for The Wreckers.
Directed by Melly Still, this new production is the first major, professional staging of our lifetime, and the first opportunity to hear the opera as Smyth intended, with its original French libretto. Glyndebourne’s music director Robin Ticciati conducts.
Read what the critics and audience had to say about the production.
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What the critics are saying
– Evening Standard
– The Stage
– The Guardian
– The Times
– Telegraph
– The Arts Desk
– Bachtrack
Audience Reaction
@glyndebourne brewing up a storm for #TheWreckers – a terrific production, bravo tutti. Grab a ticket if you can at #GFO or @bbcproms pic.twitter.com/UhKR4kVwj3
— me again really (@meagainreally1) May 21, 2022
Brilliant opening to The Festival! The Wreckers @glyndebourne Ethel Smyth. Kill for a ticket pic.twitter.com/a0zMA2vSiG
— Andrew Corbett-Nolan (@acorbettn) May 21, 2022
Terrific Ethel Smyth The Wreckers @glyndebourne opening. Deserved standing ovation. Fantastic singing and playing @LPOrchestra pic.twitter.com/8h1CZmAQpI
— Madeleine Mitchell (@MadeleineM_Vln) May 21, 2022
At @Glyndebourne last night for “The Wreckers”, opening the new season. Hugely enjoyable evening, strongly recommended.
Ethel Smyth’s opera deserves to be much better known, more regularly performed.— Terence Weldon (@queering_church) May 22, 2022
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Image credits: The Wreckers, Festival 2022. Photos by Richard Hubert Smith.