{"id":2208918,"date":"2025-12-22T18:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2208918"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:52:34","slug":"ralph-fiennes-and-nicholas-hytner-discuss-their-wwi-drama-the-choral-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ralph-fiennes-and-nicholas-hytner-discuss-their-wwi-drama-the-choral-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Hytner discuss their WWI drama ‘The Choral’ : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Henry Guthrie, played by Ralph Fiennes, is uncompromising in his pursuit of musical excellence as he overhauls a struggling northern English choir during World War I in The Choral.<\/em>
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The year is 1916. The fictional northern England town of Ramsden offers such a bucolic setting in The Choral<\/em>, with lush hills, singing birds and polite humor exchanged between locals that one could forget there’s a war raging on. But young men are getting conscripted, including some of the best singers from the local choir.<\/p>\n

The choral society turns to Henry Guthrie, played by Ralph Fiennes, an uncompromising musician who’s built a career in Germany, to become their new chorus master. He recruits women and men either too young or too old to fight.<\/p>\n