The Wreckers: explore with Alexandra
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Directed by Melly Still, this new production is the first major, professional staging of our lifetime, and the first opportunity to hear the opera as Smyth intended, with its original French libretto.
Opera specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to director Melly Still and mezzo-soprano Karis Tucker to explore the opera.
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