• Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2022

    Festival 2022 opens with and exciting Premiere- not only the first Glyndebourne staging of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, but also the first major professional staging since 1939 in the UK.

    Glyndebourne’s production will be the first ever staging of the opera’s original French-language version, and the first professional, major-house staging in our lifetime. It will also be the first time the Festival has staged an opera by a woman – and not just any woman: a bisexual feminist, who was imprisoned for suffragette activism.

  • Director: Melly Still

    Designer: Ana Inés Jabares-Pita

    Choreographer: Mike Ashcroft

    Lighting Designer: Malcolm Rippeth

    Video Designer: Akhila Krishnan

    Chorus Director: Aidan Oliver

    Assistant Conductor: Johann Stuckenbruck

    Assistant Director: Oliver Platt

    Assistant Director: Donna Stirrup

    Photography by: Richard Hubert Smith