Owen Wingrave
2001
91 minutes
Overview
Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Britten's television opera based on a short story by Henry James. Performers featured include Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge and Josephine Barstow. The conductor is Kent Nagano. As pertinent now as then, OWEN WINGRAVE was composed by Benjamin Britten at the height of the Vietnam War. The opera poses the question: Is pacifism an act of cowardice? Or rather a desire to escape from the spiral of war and create world peace? To what extent do we determine our own futures? Should we let past events inform the decisions we make? Britten’s characters grapple with timeless issues in this gripping psychodrama.
Top Cast
Gerald Finley
Owen Wingrave
Peter Savidge
Spencer Coyle
Charlotte Hellekant
Kate Julian
Josephine Barstow
Mrs Wingrave
Martyn Hill
Gen. Sir Philip Wingrave
Anne Dawson
Mrs Coyle
Hilton Marlton
Lechmere
Elizabeth Gale
Mrs Julian