Giselle Allen

Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach

Margaret Williams, Margaret Williams

Myah Bristow, Alan Oke

An open-air staging by Aldeburgh Music of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, on the beach that inspired the opera. A small seaside community struggles to accept a fisherman.

The Turn of the Screw - La Monnaie / De Munt

Andrea Breth

Sally Matthews, Carole Wilson

Nothing is what it seems in an old English manor. When a new governess arrives, the children entrusted to her care seem to receive visits from the ghosts. What horrors occurred here before her arrival? Are the children innocent? Can we really trust what we see? Based on a ghost story by Henry James, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw is a psychological thriller in chamber opera format.

The Turn of the Screw

Heather Newhouse, Giselle Allen

A brilliant staging of Britten's opera.

The Turn of the Screw

Jonathan Kent

Miah Persson, Toby Spence

A remote English country house, and old and faithful housekeeper, two young orphan children and an eager new governess sent down from London to look after them. But all is not quite as it seems in the sheltered world of Bly. Britten's brilliantly scored, insidiously compelling adaptation of Henry James's novella takes its themes of of childish innocence and adult corruption, then twists and turns them to disturbing and ultimately devastating effect.