Release Date

01 Jan, 2001

Runtime

01:31: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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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Actors

Gerald Finley

Peter Savidge

Charlotte Hellekant

Josephine Barstow

Martyn Hill

Anne Dawson

Hilton Marlton

Elizabeth Gale

Crew

Benjamin Britten

Henry James

Myfanwy Piper

Margaret Williams

Anne Beresford

Janet Tovey

Miranda Melville

Henry Harris

Doreen Watkinson

Kent Nagano