Kevin Puts’ Silent Night given its UK première

By Richard Wilcocks, 02 December 2018

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“Puts’ opera addresses with great skill and much emotion a topic which is still very relevant”

Reviewed at Leeds Town Hall, Leeds on 30 November 2018

Puts, Silent Night (Semi-staged)

Opera North

Nicholas Kok, Conductor

Tim Albery, Director

Hannah Clark, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Máire Flavin, Anne Sorensen

Ru Charlesworth, Nikolaus Sprink

Quirijn de Lang, Lieutenant Audebert

Timothy Nelson, Lieutenant Gordon

Richard Burkhard, Lieutenant Horstmayer

Geoffrey Dolton, Ponchel

Adrian Clarke, Father Palmer

Alex Banfield, Jonathan Dale

Stephen Richardson, General Audebert

Tim Ochala-Greenough, Kronprinz

Christopher Nairne, William Dale

Laura Kelly-McInroy, Madeleine Audebert

Dean Robinson, British Major

Orchestra of Opera North

Chorus of Opera North

Royal Northern College of Music Chorus

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Richard Wilcocks

Richard Wilcocks has worked as a journalist, as a teacher and for the British Council. He sings bass with Leeds Festival Chorus.

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