Britten makes belated debut in East Berlin
mainIvor Bolton is conducting Turn of the Screw at the Staatsoper on Saturday.
Remarkably, it’s the first time a Britten opera has been staged on Unter den Linden, even though the composer was much admired by the Communist regime and conducted his own War Requiem on the far side of the wall in 1968.
Maybe they thought Screw was too … spooky.
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