Owen Wingrave

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.

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

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