Owen Wingrave
Music | Drama
Release Date
January 1, 2001
Duration
91 min
Status
Released
Language
en
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.
Casts
Owen Wingrave
Gerald Finley
Spencer Coyle
Peter Savidge
Kate Julian
Charlotte Hellekant
Mrs Wingrave
Josephine Barstow
Gen. Sir Philip Wingrave
Martyn Hill
Mrs Coyle
Anne Dawson
Lechmere
Hilton Marlton
Mrs Julian
Elizabeth Gale
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