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From the Somme's trenches: Iain Bell's In Parenthesis opens at Welsh National Opera

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“it is Iain Bell’s writing for chorus that stands out”
Reviewed at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on 13 May 2016
Bell, In Parenthesis
Carlo Rizzi, Conductor
Sir David Pountney, Director
Robert Innes Hopkins, Set Designer
Andrew Bidlack, Private John Ball
Peter Coleman-Wright, Bard of Britannia/HQ Officer
Alexandra Deshorties, Bard of Germania/Alice the Barmaid/The Queen of the Woods
George Humphreys, Lieutenant Jenkins
Mark Le Brocq, Sergeant Snell
Graham Clark, The Marne Sergeant
Donald Maxwell, Dai Greatcoat
Marcus Farnsworth, Lance Corporal Lewis
Joe Roche, Private Watcyn
Martin Lloyd, Private Wastebottom
Simon Crosby Buttle, German Soldier
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