The Wreckers

Les naufrageurs is a French-language opera in three acts composed by Dame Ethel Smyth to a libretto by Henry Brewster, telling of the plundering of ships by Cornish villagers. Completed in 1904, it was premiered in 1906 in Leipzig in a German translation, with cuts, before being championed by Sir Thomas Beecham and given performances in 1909 in London, now in an English translation as The Wreckers

Director

Jonathan Haswell

Screenplay

Henry Brewster

Director

Melly Still

Status

Released

Release date

01/08/2022

Original language

English