The Turn of the Screw Reggio Emilia 2023 Florian Panzieri, Ben Fletcher, Maia Greaves, Laura Zecchini
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Turn of the Screw
- Composer: Britten Benjamin
- Libretto: Myfanwy Piper from the short novel by Henry James Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Ariosto, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Recorded: May 21, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Florian Panzieri, Ben Fletcher, Maia Greaves, Laura Zecchini, Chiara Ersilia Trapani, Liga Liedskalnina
- Conductor: Francesco Bossaglia
- Orchestra: Icarus Ensemble
Information about the Recording
- Published by: OperVision
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, “wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas”. The libretto is based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. The opera was commissioned by the Venice Biennale and given its world premiere on 14 September 1954, at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice. The original recording was made during January of the next year, with the composer conducting.
Described as one of the most dramatically appealing English operas, the opera in two acts has a prologue and sixteen scenes, each preceded by a variation on the twelve-note ‘Screw’ theme. Typically of Britten, the music mixes tonality and dissonance, with Britten’s recurrent use of a twelve-tone figure being perhaps a nod to the approach of Arnold Schoenberg. Thematically, the play gives a central role to a line borrowed from W. B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming”: “The ceremony of innocence is drowned.”
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