Performance

VenueRoyal Opera House
Other spaces: Linbury Studio, Ballet Studio, Clore Studio,Floral Hall
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From23rd April 2007
To5th May 2007
What is currently on at Royal Opera House (V377)

Owen Wingrave

Owen WingraveT792243935
As with Britten's more better-known opera The Turn of the Screw, this story was taken from Henry James and has ghostly overtones. Its two acts follow the impact on a family with a proud military history when their son as 'heir to the Wingrave flag of glory' rejects what the history represents. Gazing at the ancestral portraits he finds his own image not in them, but 'in peace', yet his innately violent nature proves a challenge that can only be defeated through one final terrible action.
Music Benjamin Britten
Lyrics Myfanwy Piper (after Henry James's short story Opera in two acts)


Archive :: production:T792243935, opera or operetta:S1134027542, venue:V377

Production details

Sung in English. Approx. running time 2 hours. New Production Linbury Studio

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Company

Producer Royal Opera
Conductor Rory Macdonald
Director Tim Hopkins
Design Tim Hopkins
Costume Gideon Davey
Lighting Wolfgang Goebbel
Performer Jacques Imbrailo (Owen Wingrave)
Performer Steven Page (Spencer Coyle)
Performer Thomas Walker (Lechmere)
Performer Vivian Tierney (Miss Wingrave)
Performer Elizabeth Woolett (Mrs Coyle)
Performer Allison Cook (Kate)
Performer Richard Berkeley Steele (General Sir Philip Wingrave)
Performer Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Mrs Julian)
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