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Blaze of Glory! review – WNO’s warm-hearted community opera hits all the right notes

Hymns, jazz, doo-wop and 19th-century French choral numbers form an unlikely patchwork in Caroline Clegg’s dynamic theatrical staging

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2023

‘She’s badass’: how brick-throwing suffragette Ethel Smyth composed an opera to shake up Britain

She was bisexual, served a prison sentence, and was so outraged by cuts to her opera The Wreckers that she stormed the orchestra pit. Finally, this summer, it will be heard as its extraordinary composer intended

The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2022