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Le tour d'ecrou = The turn of the screw / Benjamin Britten ; livret de Myfanwy Piper d'après la nouvelle éponyme de Henry James ; une coproduction Opéra national de Lorraine, Elzévir Films ; mise en scène, Eva-Maria Höckmayr.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, composer.
- Standardized Title:
- Turn of the screw
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- James, Henry, 1843-1916. Turn of the screw--Adaptations.
- James, Henry.
- Genre:
- Filmed performances.
- Operas.
- Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (116 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Turn of the screw
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, France : Qwest TV, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- It's a strange story ... Called to a mansion in the English countryside to take care of two orphans, a governess has to face extraordinary phenomena: what happened to her predecessor and her lover? Where do the voices that the children hear come from? What is this past that they never seem to be able to heal from? Inhabited by the writing of Henry James - author of the short story that inspired it - The Turn of the Screw plunges us into a disturbing world where the concept of objective reality gradually dissolves. James' reader, Britten's spectator, investigates and apprehends the facts through the tales of a mysterious narrator: a maid, or children whom they do not know if they can trust, and whose very existence they sometimes end up doubting. Vertigo. Director Eva-Maria Höckmayr loves these labyrinthine works, these quicksands in which the characters struggle until they lose their footing, this slow decomposition of what we believed to be the truth. In a 20th century in which music was bidding farewell to tonality, Britten took the back roads. In the aftermath of World War II, he created the English Opera Group, which aimed to re-found lyrical art with the economy of means implied by a world in ruins. For The Turn of the Screw he composes music where harmony flirts with dissonance, just as ghosts rub shoulders with the living on the misty shores of Lake Bly.
- Participant:
- Sarah-Jane Brandon (Governess), Stuart Jackson (Peter Quint and Narrator), Daniel Todd (Miles), Shira Patchornik (Flora), Allison Cook (Mrs. Grose), Susanna Hurrell (Miss Jessel), Emmanuel Olivier (Pianist), Iseult Picard (Little Flora).
- Orchestra de l'opéra national de Lorraine ; musical direction, Bas Wiegers.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed July 03, 2025).
- OCLC:
- 1535937222
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