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Owen Wingrave
2001, Jan 01
1h 31m
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.
Directed by
Margaret Williams
Written by
Myfanwy Piper
Gerald Finley
Owen Wingrave
Josephine Barstow
Mrs Wingrave
Peter Savidge
Spencer Coyle
Charlotte Hellekant
Kate Julian
Martyn Hill
Gen. Sir Philip Wingrave
Anne Dawson
Mrs Coyle
Hilton Marlton
Lechmere
Elizabeth Gale
Mrs Julian
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