Name: Owen Wingrave
Start: 2013-08-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2013-08-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Carriageworks

Organization

Singer

Morgan Pearse

No role specified

Georgia Bassingthwaighte

Rowena Cowley

Emily Edmonds

Paul Ferris

Pascal Herington

Simon Lobelson

Kornélia Pérchy

Conductor

Jack Symonds

Stage director

Imara Savage

Costume designer

Katren Wood

Set designer

Sydney Chamber Opera

Owen Wingrave

Sydney City

Australia

Carriageworks

Bay 20

Owen Wingrave Britten

Public

Approved

Benjamin Britten is the most important British composer of the twentieth century, and is the greatest composer of opera in English. Based on a Henry James ghost story, Owen Wingrave is a statement of Britten’s lifelong pacifism. Composed during the Vietnam War, it is the story of a young soldier from an eminent military family whose anti-war instincts lead him to rebel against his upbringing. Desperate to keep his would-be bride and prove he isn’t a coward, he is forced to confront the ghosts of his ancestry.

The music is Britten at his refined, luminous best, with influences ranging from Gamelan to twelve-tone techniques. Imara Savage returns to Sydney Chamber Opera to direct the work’s Australian stage premiere.

English

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