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 highlyregarded 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 (bassbaritone) Hilton Marlton Lechmere (tenor) Josephine Barstow Miss Wingrave (dramatic soprano) Anne Dawson Mrs Coyle (soprano) Charlotte Hellekant Kate Julian (mezzosoprano) 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 Jamess 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