Nikolaus sprink biography
- Soldat Nikolaus Sprink is an Imperial German soldier serving on the Western Front in 1914.
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- Benno Fürmann (singing voice: Rolando Villazón) as Private Nikolaus Sprink (German tenor) real name Walter Kirchhoff (Berlín;1879 — Wiesbaden; 1951) ; Guillaume.
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Nikolaus Sprink
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Imperial German Army
Soldat Nikolaus Sprink is an Imperial German soldier serving on the Western Front in 1914. Sprink is a Tenor who is interrupted during a performance by a German officer announcing a reserve call up.
In Germany, Anna Sørensen (The Danish fiance of Sprink) gets permission to perform for the soldiers and Sprink is allowed to accompany her. They spend a night together and then perform. Afterward, Sprink expresses bitterness at the comfort of the generals at their headquarters, and resolves to go back to the front to sing for the troops. Sprink is initially against Anna's decision to go with him, but he agrees shortly afterward.
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- He is played by Benno Fürmann.
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Joyeux Noël
2005 film by Christian Carion
- Joyeux Noël means Merry Christmas in French. For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation) and Merry Christmas (disambiguation)
Joyeux Noël (English: Merry Christmas) is a 2005 wardrama film based on the Christmas truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes of French, British, and German soldiers. It was written and directed by Christian Carion,[5] and screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[6]
The film, which includes one of the last appearances of Ian Richardson before his death, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards. It is a fictionalised account of an actual event that took place in December 1914, when Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, sent the lead singer of the Berlin Imperial Opera company on a solo visit to the front line. Singing by the tenor, Walter Kirchhoff, to the 120th and 124th Württemberg regiments led Scottish soldiers in their trenches to stand up and applaud.[7]
Plot
The story centres mainly upon six chara
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Silent Night (opera)
2011 opera by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell
Silent Night is an opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell. As Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts the work had its world premiere at the Ordway Theater, Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 12, 2011 under the directorship and dramaturgy of Eric Simonson. As Silent Night, the opera had its East Coast premiere at the Philadelphia Academy of Music on February 8, 2013.[1] It premiered in the Southwest at Bass Performance Hall with Fort Worth Opera on May 4, 2014.[2] The European premiere took place on October 24, 2014, in a new production by Tomer Zvulun, at the Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland.[3] In 2014 the work was staged at the Calgary Opera and the Cincinnati Opera, The Wexford production was performed at the Atlanta Opera and in 2015 it was performed at the Opéra de Montréal and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. It received its West Coast premiere at Opera San Jose on February 11, 2017. The Glimmerglass Festival and University of Kentucky Opera Theatre present
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