Der Wald
Music by Ethel Smyth · libretto by Ethel Smyth · premiered 1902
Der Wald (The Forest) is an opera in one act by Ethel Smyth to a German libretto by Henry Brewster and Smyth, written between 1899 and 1901. It was Smyth's second opera and it was first performed on 9 April 1902 at the Königliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin.
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About the Composer
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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Other Operas by Ethel Smyth
- Fantasio (1834)
- Fête Galante (1909)
- Entente Cordiale (1925)