Ethel Smyth
1858 – 1944 · English · 4 operas in the catalogue
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (; 22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth tended to be marginalised as a "woman composer", as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. Yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticised for not measuring up to the standard of her male peers. She was the first female composer granted a damehood.
Smyth was involved in the suffrage movement and spent time in Holloway Prison for breaking windows. She also composed the suffragette anthem The March of the Women.
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Operas in the Opera Almanac Catalogue
- 1898 Fantasio, 1898 English
- 1902 Der Wald, 1902 German
- 1925 Entente Cordiale, 1925
- n/a Fête Galante