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Release Date:
January 1, 2001
Original Title:
Owen Wingrave
Alternate Titles:
Benjamin Britten: Owen Wingrave
Owen Wingrave
Genres:
Drama | Music | War
Production Companies:
Channel 4 Television
MJW Productions
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 91
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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Art Direction:
Henry Harris
Cinematography:
Janet Tovey
Conductor:
Kent Nagano
Costume Design:
Doreen Watkinson
Director:
Margaret Williams
Novel:
Henry James
Original Music Composer:
Benjamin Britten
Producer:
Anne Beresford
Production Design:
Miranda Melville
Writer:
Myfanwy Piper
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