Owen Wingrave
T01630949580
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.
Archive :: production:T01630949580, opera or operetta:S1134027542, venue:V222
