W. Spear

Necrophiliac pedophilia?  Or a slow descent into madness?  What really happened at Bly?  After listening to Glyndebourne’s 2007 Production of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, released in a live recording under the festival’s own label, one is still left in the dark as to what really transpired at that English estate.  Perhaps this…

By on August 02, 2011 at 3:03 PM
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“Time and tide wait for no one” pontificates Myrtle the barmaid, setting the tone for André Previn’s opera about fleeting romance but enduring love:  Brief Encounter.  Loosely based on the play Still Life by Noël Coward and the screenplay for the film Brief Encounter by Coward and David Lean, this opera (now on CD) tells…

By on June 06, 2011 at 10:29 AM
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