Ethel Smyth Suggest updates
Dame Ethel Smyth.
Born Marylebone, London, 23 April 1858.
Died Woking, 9 May 1944.
English composer.
Ethel Smyth came from a military background. Like a number of her talented musical contemporaries, including Sullivan and Mackenzie, she studied at the Leipzig Conservatoire. She was quickly recognized to be a great talent, and a number of her compositions were premiered in Germany, including her first three operas. In Britain, she was a renowned activist in the suffrage movement, famously reported to have conducted her 'March of the Women' sung by a chorus of fellow-prisoners in Holloway by using her toothbrush as a baton.
Operas performed in Scotland are shown in bold:
01 Fantasio (1892-94; Weimar 1898) (Brewster & cpsr)
02 Der Wald (1899-1901; Berlin 1902) (Brewster & cpsr)
03 The Wreckers (1902; Leipzig 1906) (Brewster & cpsr)
04 The Boatswain's Mate (1913-14; London 1916) (cpsr)
05 Fête Galante (Birmingham 1923) (Shanks & cpsr)
06 Entente Cordiale (London 1925) (cpsr)
