Houston Grand Opera presents The Wreckers Oct. 28-Nov.11

Houston Grand Opera presents The Wreckers Oct. 28-Nov.11

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Houston Grand Opera's The Wreckers Stars Grammy Award Winner Sasha Cooke

New production a lost masterpiece

Dame Ethel Smyth’s epic 1906 opera The Wreckers gets its first-ever full-scale production from a major American opera company. This must-see new production stars Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke as the resolute Thirza whose husband, the preacher Pascoe, declares to the coastal community that shipwrecks along their shore are meant to be pillaged—and meant to be premeditated by leaving the lighthouse dark.