How Composer Ethel Smyth Made Opera History

She was a militant suffragette and lesbian, and to this day is the only female composer to have had a work performed at New York’s Met Opera. Inside her amazing life.

Shawn E. Milnes

Published Jul. 24 2015 1:08AM EDT 

Shawn E. Milnes

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