Owen Wingrave

Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Brittens 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 Brittens characters grapple with timeless issues in this gripping psychodrama