Two performances over the weekend of Benjamin Britten’s haunting, pacifist opera Owen Wingrave gave another dimension to the Great War theme of the International Festival and picked up on Ian ...

Britten always demanded the highest standards of artists he could trust (and, as movingly described in a programme article by outgoing festival director Jonathan Reekie, expected as much in terms of ...

Much can be made of the fact that the opera was written for television in 1971, commissioned by the BBC. Although it was some time since The Turn of the Screw (also an adaptation of James by Piper), ...

Owen Wingrave, played by Steven Slupe, and Kate Julian, played by Jennifer Lazarz, try to reconcile during a rehearsal of UNCSA/Fletcher Opera Institute's production of Benjamin Britten's "Owen ...

Benjamin Britten’s penultimate opera Owen Wingrave, Op. 85 is unusual in being expressly written for the television. With a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, and based on a short story by Henry James, it ...