Both Millay's extraordinary life-story and her celebrity lifestyle drew malicious or demeaning attention in the press. Griffin Barry
, an ex-lover, led the field with a piece in the New Yorker just before her opera...
Performance of text
Ethel Smyth
ES
's second opera, Der Wald, became the first by a woman to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera House
in New York.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.