The Turn of the Screw at the Royal Opera House review: commanding and unsettling - 4/5 Claustrophobia and menace run rampant ...
The fine acoustics also make Britten’s chamber orchestra sound vivid and punchy, and conductor Bassem Akiki drives the drama ...
A new production by Natalie Abrahami and Michael Levine, The Turn of the Screw at the Royal Opera House haunts with eerie ...
The taut, disturbing 1954 opera that Benjamin Britten and librettist Myfanwy Piper crafted out of Henry James’s ghost story The Turn of the Screw has shown itself to be capable of infinite ...
This post was updated Nov. 21 at 4:35 p.m. Opera UCLA’s latest production plays to haunt the narrative. Over 70 years since its Venice premiere, Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera “The Turn of the Screw ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. One of the reasons Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw is part of the Santa Fe Opera’s 2025 season is to ...
New York parents, more than anyone else, should be freaked out by The Turn of the Screw. Why? When childcare in New York City costs, on average, around fifteen thousand dollars a year and most of the ...
The University of Oklahoma will present Benjamin Britten’s opera “The Turn of the Screw” Oct. 16–19 in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center, a chamber opera that explores childhood innocence, ...
Bywater shows she knows the novella and the opera equally well in possibly the most intelligent programme essay I've read on the subject. But does thought translate into action, head balance with ...
The story, as it was in Henry James’s original multilayered chiller, addressed the spoken fears of that era: of ghosts in remote houses who haunt lonely, parentless children for malign purposes that ...
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"The Turn of the Screw" is more than a ghost story about two frightened children. It's also a taut, sinister tale about trauma and repression, played out in whispers in a rural English manor. Think ...