The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 – review

Glyndebourne, East Sussex; Royal Albert Hall, LondonA great frame of leaded glass dominates the action in Jonathan Kent's Glyndebourne production of Britten's The Turn of the Screw. As it lifts and pivots through the action its purpose is as ambiguous as the plot, serving one moment as a conventional window, the next as the surface of a lake. It is both transparent and opaque – a perfect mirror to reflect the creepy contradictions in Henry James's late-Victorian ghost story.Not that Kent seems...

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