Welsh National Opera

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Iain Bell
Lib: David Antrobus and Emma Jenkins (after David Jones)
Dir: David Pountney
Cond: Carlo Rizzi

Welsh National Opera presents a new opera from acclaimed British composer Iain Bell, with a libretto by David Antrobus and Emma Jenkins that adapts David Jones’s epic poem set during the Battle of the Somme.

Cast:

- Private John Ball – TBC
- Bard of Britannia/HQ Officer – Peter Coleman-Wright
- Bard of Germania/Alice the Barmaid/The Queen of the Woods – Alexandra Deshorties
- Lieutenant Jenkins – George Humphreys
- Lance Corporal Lewis – Marcus Farnsworth
- Sergeant Snell – Mark Le Brocq
- Dai Great Coat – Donald Maxwell
- The Marne Sergeant – Graham Clark