Opera tonight: Turn of the Screw in Reggio

In an oppressive atmosphere filled with unseen phantoms and hallucinations, Benjamin Britten’s fourth opera is his most captivating, brought to you by Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision. What is left unsaid takes centre stage echoing a void at the centre of Henry James’s original story; an empty centre around which gravitates the characters with their hopes and fears – an absence that drags all the characters into an unstoppable downward spiral. I Teatri’s new production in Reggio Emilia is conducted by Francesco Bossaglia and directed by Fabio Condemi who writes, ‘I believe that Britten’s The Turn of the Screw is not just a musical transposition of Henry James’s novella. It is a profound reflection on its themes, a musical parallel that continually dialogues, approaches and detaches itself from the original.’

Peter Quint sings the role of Florian Panzieri, Ben Fletcher as Miles and Maia Greaves as Flora and Laura Zecchini as The governess. The opera is sung in English with English subtitles.

The Plot: In a remote country house, the newly-appointed governess arrives to take charge of the orphaned Flora and Miles. She must fight to protect them from strange and menacing spirits. But are these apparitions real, or the product of her troubled imagination? And what terrible evil occurred before her arrival?

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