The Turn of the Screw – review

Glyndebourne festivalIt took more than 50 years for Britten's masterly chamber opera , based on Henry James, to arrive at Glyndebourne – a theatre and setting for which it could have been written. But Jonathan Kent's 2006 production is already almost a Sussex fixture now — this is its second revival in five years — and it comes across better than ever.Updating Britten operas to the postwar era, when they were written, is becoming a bit of a cliche, now that Christopher Alden has done th...

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