Michael Tanner

Who’s deceiving whom?

The more often I see Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, the more I am bewildered and fascinated by it.

issue 23 October 2010

The more often I see Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, the more I am bewildered and fascinated by it.

The more often I see Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, the more I am bewildered and fascinated by it. There is no question that it is one of his most brilliant operatic scores, if not the most brilliant of all.

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