Owen Wingrave (2001)
Owen Wingrave
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.
Casting arrow_drop_down
Gerald Finley
as Owen Wingrave
as Owen Wingrave
Peter Savidge
as Spencer Coyle
as Spencer Coyle
Charlotte Hellekant
as Kate Julian
as Kate Julian
Josephine Barstow
as Mrs Wingrave
as Mrs Wingrave
Martyn Hill
as Gen. Sir Philip Wingrave
as Gen. Sir Philip Wingrave
Anne Dawson
as Mrs Coyle
as Mrs Coyle
Hilton Marlton
as Lechmere
as Lechmere
Elizabeth Gale
as Mrs Julian
as Mrs Julian
Crew arrow_drop_down
Henry Harris
Art Direction
Art Direction
Miranda Melville
Production Design
Production Design
Benjamin Britten
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Janet Tovey
Cinematography
Cinematography
Doreen Watkinson
Costume Design
Costume Design
Anne Beresford
Producer
Producer
Henry James
Novel
Novel
Myfanwy Piper
Writer
Writer
Kent Nagano
Conductor
Conductor
Margaret Williams
Director
Director
