The Wreckers (opera) her friend Mary Dodge. Describing the opera in the "New Grove Dictionary", Stephen Banfield notes "Its greatest strength is in its dramatic strategy, strikingly prophetic of (Britten's) "Peter Grimes" in details such as the offstage church service set against the foreground confrontation in Act 1." However, Amanda Holden makes the point that, musically, Smyth is "no Wagnerite, she makes use of his motivic technique, while the texture, orchestration, and even some of the music's dramatic density, show knowledge of the works of Richard Strauss ... but it also slips too readily into operatic convention." Old tales of Cornish villages where,
Peter Glossop York, was in 1971 as Scarpia in "Tosca". Later roles for the Metropolitan Opera included Don Carlo in "La forza del destino", Mr Redburn in "Billy Budd", Balstrode in "Peter Grimes" and the title roles in "Falstaff" and "Wozzeck". His career continued into the mid-1980s with appearances in London and the main European and American opera houses. His further repertory included Don Carlo in "Ernani", Mandryka in "Arabella", Pizarro in "Fidelio" and the title roles in "The Flying Dutchman" and "Macbeth". Glossop made a number of recordings. These include "Macbeth" with Rita Hunter in the 1960s, "Billy Budd" under the