Owen Wingrave, Grange Park Opera, review: Benjamin Britten's grotesques play happily in suburbia
Owen Wingrave, Grange Park Opera, review: Benjamin Britten’s grotesques play happily in suburbia The i 12/15/2020 Rachel Bayne © Provided by The i Owen Wingrave has been updated to 21st-century Surrey Owen Wingrave has always been a bit of a problem. Benjamin Britten’s 1971 opera is a slightly queasy blend of political drum-beating and personal chest-beating – a pacifist manifesto draped around a ghost story that cannot support its weight. That it also features some of Britten’s most seductive orchestral colouring and insinuating melody-fragments, his most dazzlin...
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