Voices of the Unseen: Benjamin Britten’s Reading of The Turn of the Screw
The first performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera based on Henry James’s 1898 novella, took place in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice in 1954. Turning the text into an opera had required major changes, owing to the transposition of a complex Jamesian narrative form into a dramatic one. However, the l...
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Polysèmes
2022
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| Summary: | The first performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera based on Henry James’s 1898 novella, took place in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice in 1954. Turning the text into an opera had required major changes, owing to the transposition of a complex Jamesian narrative form into a dramatic one. However, the librettist, Myfanwy Piper, working in close association with Benjamin Britten, had attempted to retain, to some extent, the undecipherable enigma around which the novella functions. James’s narrativ... |
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