A universal story told time and again: two lovers who cannot tie the knot because someone stands in their way. In Ethel Smyth’s *Der Wald*, it is a jealous witch who seeks to prevent the tenor from marrying the soprano. To thwart their wedding plans, she casts a spell upon them… What will become of the protagonists? Will they suffer the tragic fate of Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Isolde?
You’ll find out by attending this opera, which will feature the Le Motet choir alongside amateur musicians and singers joining in to lend their support.
To top it all off, Celia Cano, the second winner of the OCG Prize awarded to a particularly brilliant graduate, will conduct the Overture to The Wreckers.
“Ethel Smyth, a British composer trained in Leipzig, a towering figure, author, conductor and feminist activist, wrote the one-act opera Der Wald at the turn of the 20th century. Never before performed in Switzerland, it is an exceedingly rare masterpiece, of underestimated significance, in the mould of the great German Romantics.” – Raphaël Merlin

Artists :

• Raphaël Merlin, conductor
• Celia Cano, conductor
• Chelsea Zurflüh, Röschen
• Isabelle Druet, Lolantha
• Pierre Derhet, Heinrich
• Vincent Le Texier, Rudolf
• Ruben Drole, Peter
• Felix Gygli, der Hausirer
• Le Motet de Genève, choir