Bly or Bedlam? ENO’s new The Turn of the Screw

Ailish Tynan (Governess)

Jerry Louth (Miles) and Ailish Tynan (Governess)

Eleanor Dennis (Miss Jessel), Robert Murray (Peter Quint) and Ailish Tynan (Governess)

Victoria Nekhaenko (Flora), Gweneth-Ann Rand (Mrs Grose) and Jerry Louth (Miles)

The Turn of the Screw

Von Roy Westbrook, 13 Oktober 2024

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Veranstaltung anzeigen

“any new production must retain some ambiguity”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The London Coliseum, London, am 11 Oktober 2024

Britten, The Turn of the Screw

English National Opera

Duncan Ward, Musikalische Leitung

Isabella Bywater, Regie, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Paul Anderson, Licht

English National Opera Orchestra

Ailish Tynan, Governess

Robert Murray, Peter Quint

Gweneth-Ann Rand, Mrs Grose

Eleanor Dennis, Miss Jessel

Alan Oke, The Prologue

Victoria Nekhaenko, Flora

Jerry Louth, Miles

Glass' Echnaton der ENO

David Karlin, 4th March

Phelim McDermott begibt sich in Philip Glass' Altes Ägypten: eine Produktion mit Starauftritt von Anthony Roth Costanzo, die zu sehen und zu hören absolut fesselnd ist.

*****

Stacheldraht und Haferschleim: ENOs Forza del destino

Mark Pullinger, 9th November

Calixto Bieitos neue Produktion von Verdis Die Macht des Schicksals für die Englische Nationalopar ist - für ihn - eine zahme Angelegenheit.

***11

Wagners Meistersinger in Topqualität

David Karlin, 7th February

Die ENO war in der letzten Woche aus den falschen Gründen in den Nachrichten und Richard Jones' Meistersinger von Nürnberg musste dringend eine großartie Produktion werden. Mit einer glänzenden Vorstellung von Iain Paterson ist sie das.

*****

Reality television: ENO’s Angel’s Bone in Manchester

Lawrence Dunn, 12th May

Kip Williams and ENO mount an extraordinary new production of Du Yun and Royce Vavrek’s multifaceted opera, with performances of great emotional directness broadcast live on camera.

*****

ENO’s Mahagonny: biting, bleak, brilliantly executed satire

David Karlin, 16th February

Never has Brecht and Weill’s satire on the inhumanity of man to man been render with such utter darkness; Simon O’Neill heads up a superb cast.

*****

Taken for a ride: an energetic revival of Così fan tutte at ENO

Dominic Lowe, 6th February

English National Opera's revival of Phelim McDermott’s popular production is a blend of spectacle with some first-class singing, with Lucy Crowe emphasising her Mozartian credentials.

****1

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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.