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

By Roy Westbrook, 13 October 2024

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“any new production must retain some ambiguity”

Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 11 October 2024

Britten, The Turn of the Screw

English National Opera

Duncan Ward, Conductor

Isabella Bywater, Director, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Paul Anderson, Lighting Designer

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

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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.