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WFMT Radio Network Opera Series

Budapest Festival Orchestra: 'The Turn of the Screw'

Published August 5, 2023 at 1:00 PM EDT
The housekeeper, Mrs Grose (Laura Aikin, soprano), tries to bring into line the children playing on the settee: Miles (Benjamin Fletcher, treble) and Flora (Lucy Barlow, soprano) in Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw. (Supplied: Müpa Budapest, the Iván Fischer Opera Company and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Photograph: Judit Horváth)
Supplied: Müpa Budapest, the Iván Fischer Opera Company and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Photograph: Judit Horváth

Hear Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" on Classical IPR on Saturday at 1 p.m.

This mysterious and spellbinding opera is based on ghost story and is being presented by the Budapest Festival Orchestra from the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall.

Musically, this opera is typical Britten, mixing tonality and dissonance, with a nod to Arnold Schoenberg in the use of a recurring twelve-tone figure.

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Composer: Benjamin Britten

Libretto: Myfanwy Piper

Venue: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Presenting company: Budapest Festival Orchestra

Cast:
Governess: Miah Persson

Mrs. Grose, the Housekeeper: Laura Aikin

Peter Quint, former Manservant: Andrew Staples

Miss Jessel, former Governess: Allison Cook

Miles: Benjamin Fletcher

Flora: Lucy Barlow

Ensemble: Budapest Festival Orchestra

Conductor: Iván Fischer

Approx. Length: 1 hour, 55 minutes

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