Benjamin Britten’s opera for television: Owen Wingrave (Gerald Finley with conductor Kent Nagano)

Owen Wingrave returned to the small screen in a new version by the highly-regarded music and art director Margaret Williams, with Gerald Finley taking the title role and Josephine Barstow is Miss Wingrave. Kent Nagano - conductor Margaret Williams - director Gerald Finley - Owen Wingrave (baritone) Peter Savidge - Spencer Coyle (bass-baritone) Hilton Marlton - Lechmere (tenor) Josephine Barstow - Miss Wingrave (dramatic soprano) Anne Dawson - Mrs Coyle (soprano) Charlotte Hellekant - Kate Julian (mezzo-soprano) Martyn Hill - Sir Philip Wingrave (tenor) Elizabeth Gale - Mrs Julian (soprano) The Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin Opera movie with libretto Myfanwy Piper. Directed by Margaret Williams, 1991. 0:00 Prelude 3:06 Act I 57:00 Act II When BBC commissioned Benjamin Britten to write an opera for television, he based the work on Henry James’s ghost story about the son of a military family who realizes his conscience will not permit him to remain a soldier. The theme of Owen Wingrave fitted perfectl