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Owen Wingrave reviews are hot off the press
April 2025
It’s quite ironic that the Royal Northern College of Music should have invited, as director of this, Britten's avowedly pacifist opera, Orpha Phelan – whose version of his Billy Budd for Opera North nearly 10 years ago contained one of the most thrilling battle scenes ever staged....And, in her presentation of Owen Wingrave, war is not merely talked about, but seen. That’s very much to the good...
The Arts Desk
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