Britten: The Turn of the Screw [Blu-ray]

It is indeed ‘a curious story’, as the Prologue says. A remote English country house, an old and faithful housekeeper, two young orphan children and an eager new governess sent down from London to look after them. But all is not quite as it seems in the sheltered world of Bly. Spirits from the past increasingly encroach upon the realm of the living. And one question keeps worming its way into the governess’s mind: what exactly did happen between the children, their former governess and the deceased manservant, Peter Quint? Britten’s brilliantly scored, insidiously compelling adaptation of Henry James’s novella takes its themes of childish innocence and adult corruption, then twists and turns them to disturbing and ultimately devastating effect. Jonathan Kent’s eerily unsettling staging has been recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival conducted by Glyndebourne on Tour’s Music Director, Jakub Hrusa.

Поворот винта (The Turn of the Screw) — опера Бенджамина Бриттена в 2 действиях с прологом, либретто М. Пайпера по одноименной повести Г. Джеймса.
Премьера: 14 сентября 1954 года, Венеция, театр «Ла Фениче», международный фестиваль современной музыки