Le nozze di Figaro in Santa Fe is a light and kindly revival while The Turn of the Screw is crisp and atmospheric
Britten’s penultimate opera, the anti-war ghost story Owen Wingrave, was composed for television performance in 1971.
This was not a performance as gimmick.
Benjamin Britten’s final opera Death in Venice, based on Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella, is given a lush and quite beautiful production from stage director Deborah Warner for the English National Opera.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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