Owen Wingrave

Music, Drama, War · 2001

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.

Starring

Henry James, Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge, Anne Beresford, Charlotte Hellekant, Kent Nagano, Josephine Barstow, Henry Harris

Director

Margaret Williams

Producer

Anne Beresford