St Martin`s Lane
London
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Prices include tickets plus hotel
Tickets + hotel fr £60 / person
Tickets + hotel fr £60 £54 / person
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Running time: 2hr 10min. Incl 1 interval.
Booking from: 11 Oct 2024
Booking until: 31 Oct 2024
With its dark, evocative score, Britten's The Turn of the Screw is one of the most unnerving of all operas.
Told in flashback from a psychiatric ward, a young governess is terrorised by unseen forces in a remote country house.
The setting is Bronte-esque, but the menace is pure Hitchcock.
A young, inexperienced governess is invited to a bleak country house, home to two orphaned children, both deeply troubled, possibly possessed.
Her anxiety mounts.
There are strangled cries in the night, a figure on the tower, a face at the window.
But are they just figments of her imagination, or malign presences threatening the charges in her care? She can't be sure ? and nor can we ? as the tension builds towards a nerve-shredding climax.
Britten's innovative score is a masterpiece of twentieth century opera.
With 13 virtuosic instruments, this most eminent British opera composer creates an eerie palette of orchestral colours, with both acts divided into 8 scenes.
A 'screw' theme connects all the interludes and this tightens in intensity as the mood grows darker and darker.
Particularly effective is the opera's use of nursery rhymes to raise the tension ? a technique adopted by many horror films.
Directed and designed by Isabella Bywater, the production features Ailish Tynan in the role of the Governess.
Central to the opera's eerie subject, the roles of Miss Jessel and Peter Quint are sung by former ENO Harewood artist Eleanor Dennis and Robert Murray.
The production is conducted by Duncan Ward ? and Charlotte Corderoy on 29 and 31 Oct, who both make their ENO debut.
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper (based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James).
Assisted performances
BSL signed: Sunday 13 October 2024 at 2.
30pm
London Coliseum
St Martin`s Lane
London
WC2N 4ES
Directions:
3 min walk from Charing Cross Station. Cross the Strand and continue along Adelaide Street, left along William IV Street, then right onto St Martin`s Lane and the Coliseum will be on the right.
Tube:
Leicester Square station is 2 minute walk (189 metres)
Matinee | Evening | |
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Wednesday | 7.00pm | |
Sunday | 2.30pm |
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London Coliseum
St Martin`s Lane
London
WC2N 4ES
Leicester Square station is 2 minute walk (189 metres)
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