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BerlinThe Turn of the Screw
Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Finnegan Downie Dear; Claus Guth; Staatsoper Berlin; Christian Schmidt; Maria Bengtsson; Stephan Rügamer
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A work designed to be performed in church has become a dramatic music theatre event that captured and held me enthralled throughout in a meditation on both death and life.
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A title role performance full of depth from Terfel and a barnstorming comic interlude from Tomlinson provide some great moments, but much of this Boris fails to rise above the ordinary.
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