Name: The Boatswain's Mate
Start: 2024-07-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Pavilion Arts Centre

Admin

Buxton International Festival

Stage director

Nick Bond

Conductor

Rebecca Warren

Singer

Elizabeth Findon

Mrs Waters

Joshua Baxter

Harry Benn

Theo Perry

Ned Travers

Richard Woodall

Policeman

Rebecca Anderson

Mary-Ann

Orchestra

Buxton Festival Orchestra

The Boatswain's Mate

Buxton

United Kingdom

Pavilion Arts Centre

The Boatswain's Mate: The Boatswain's Mate Smyth

Public

Private

Rahul Karaguppi

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Bass

Soprano

Baritone

Countertenor

Mezzo-soprano

Tenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

A Buxton International Festival production. Death was never going to confine the force of nature that was Ethel Smyth to obscurity for long. A trailblazing composer, conductor and feminist; she was a breaker of windows for the suffragettes, and a breaker of glass ceilings for women musicians of the Victorian era. During her life she met discrimination towards her work with defiance. She became the first woman to have an opera performed at the New York Met, she was the first woman composer to become a Dame, and in 2021 she was posthumously awarded her first Grammy. The Boatswain's Mate is a battle of the sexes, that centres on the feisty Mrs Waters, a widowed landlady who has no desire to remarry. When one of her suitors, an ex-boatswain, attempts to ludicrously win her hand by concocting a fake robbery, she retaliates with aplomb. Smoking gun in hand, she proves she has no need for a knight in shining armour, but also perhaps that she's not completely hardened to the idea of love. Nick Bond directs, following his successes with Jonathan Dove’s The Enchanted Pig (2021) and assistant-directing La sonnambula (2023). The cast is led by soprano Elizabeth Findon and tenor Joshua Baxter. Rebecca Warren directs the Buxton Chamber Collective from the piano.

English

The Boatswain's Mate by Smyth, Fri 19 Jul 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Nick Bond,, Conductor Rebecca Warren, Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton, United Kingdom

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