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Britten's "Turn of the Screw" at City Opera undermined by horror movie gimmicks
msn.com (2 months and 28 days ago)

The New York City Opera interprets “The Turn of the Screw,” Britten’s ghostly chamber work, for the company’s second production of the season.
nytimes.com (2 months and 28 days ago)

Two characters serve as male and female choruses, commenting on the action in Britten’s “Rape of Lucretia,” presented by the Mannes Opera.
nytimes.com (11 days ago)
When it comes to operatic ghost stories, none is more creepily effective than Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw."
miamiherald.com (2 months and 28 days ago)
NEW YORK (AP) -- When it comes to operatic ghost stories, none is more creepily effective than Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw."...
ap.org (2 months and 28 days ago)

Benjamin Britten's score for The Beggar's Opera is a marvel, says David Fanning.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 20 days ago)
One of the most harrowing final scenes in all of opera is the ending of Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites," when the nuns condemned by the French Revolution walk one by one to the scaffold, singing a gradually thinning chorus punctuated by the slashing sounds of a guillotine.
miamiherald.com (17 days ago)
Behind the scenes as young actors rehearse "The Turn of the Screw," New York City Opera's 1980s-set version of the Benjamin Britten opera.
wsj.com (3 months ago)

Ava June was a supremely versatile lyric soprano, equally at home with romantic Italian opera and in the works of Benjamin Britten. She also coached, conducted masterclasses, and produced and directed performances throughout the country and abroad.
independent.co.uk (2 months and 14 days ago)

The young English tenor Alexander Sprague gives Ian Bostridge a run for his money in an otherwise flat production of Benjamin Britten's opera, says Rupert Christiansen.
telegraph.co.uk (7 days ago)
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