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Beth Taylor and Hamish Brown astonish in their EIF debut led by female composers, myths and legends with Medusa, a specially commissioned piece from Stuart MacRae. 

Pleas for more Respighi operas are answered as the students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama give the UK premiere of Lucrezia, paired with Ethel Smyth's Der Wald.

Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and a prelude from Dame Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers are heard for the first time in Singapore. 

Romanticism is the obvious link between Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto and Elgar's Second Symphony in this absorbing evening's entertainment supplied by Denis Kozhukhin, the RPO and its Music Director, Vasily Petrenko.

Massenet, Smyth and Rota are unlikely bedfellows, but in the Guildhall School's Autumn production, a one-act opera by each contributed to a most convincing triple bill, all set around the La Scala Picturehouse in the 1920s.

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Chief Conductor Designate makes a strong impression in purposeful Rachmaninov after Elena Urioste and Ben Goldscheider wave the flag for Dame Ethel Smyth. 

Smyth's rarely performed tale of evil deeds on the Cornish coast provides searing drama marred by poor intelligibility and an overpowering orchestra.

Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D enjoys a rare outing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins. 

Evocative Smyth and impressively detailed Strauss from Tausk, and warm Dvořák with soulful playing from Daniel Müller-Schott.

Geraint Bowen directs the Three Choirs Festival Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra at Hereford Cathedral in two works once unfairly dismissed.

Bard SummerScape made musical history by presenting the first full staging of British composer Ethel Smyth’s opera The Wreckers. Born in 1858 and dying in 1944, Smyth was celebrated in her day (John Singer Sargent painted her portrait in 1901) not only for her compositions, but for being an openly bisexual member of the suffrage movement.

Mit seiner Hauptrolle, der kämpferisch emanzipierten Thirza, sticht dieses Musikdrama aus dem Repertoire der Opern des 19. Jahrhunderts heraus. Das Badische Staatstheater hat das Werk nach langer Vergessenheit für das Publikum von heute als packende soziale Studie über gesellschaftliche Aggressivität wieder auf die Bühne gebracht.

Von der englischen Küste in den Thüringer Wald: Meiningen ist eine Etappe auf dem verspäteten Siegeszug von Ethel Smyths The Wreckers.