Released:
2001-01-01

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.

Director:
Margaret Williams

Runtime:
1h 31min

Genre:
Music, Drama, War

• Cast:
• 
  Gerald Finley
  as
  Owen Wingrave
• 
  Peter Savidge
  as
  Spencer Coyle
• 
  Charlotte Hellekant
  as
  Kate Julian
• 
  Josephine Barstow
  as
  Mrs Wingrave
• 
  Martyn Hill
  as
  Gen. Sir Philip Wingrave