Owen Wingrave
7.5
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.
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Gerald Finley
Owen Wingrave
Also in
Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Peter Savidge
Spencer Coyle
Also in
The Yeomen of the Guard
Princess Ida
Henry James
Margaret Williams
Benjamin Britten
Anne Beresford
Charlotte Hellekant
Kate Julian
Also in
L'étrangère
L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Kent Nagano
Myfanwy Piper
Josephine Barstow
Mrs Wingrave
Also in
Gloriana
National Theatre Live: Follies
Henry Harris
Martyn Hill
Gen. Sir Philip Wingrave
Also in
Royal Opera House: Salomé
Margaret Williams Director · Myfanwy Piper Writer Henry James Author
First release January 1, 2001 · Produced in United Kingdom · Production MJW Productions
Production
Channel 4 Television
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MJW Productions
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United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · January 1, 2001
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