Londres, 1921. Dans un hôpital accueillant les blessés et les malades de la Guerre 14-18, un psychiatre tente d'aider une jeune femme. Un matin, elle réussi à lui parler et lui dit en chuchotant « J'ai vu le diable ». Le psychiatre surpris, lui demande de lui raconter ce qui s'est passé. Quelques mois plus tôt, Anne avait été engagée par un aristocrate pour s'occuper de ses deux neveux orphelins, Miles et Flora. Mais des apparitions inexpliquées se manifestent. Après avoir discuté avec une des servantes de la demeure, elle apprend que la précédente gouvernante, Emily Jessel, et son amant, Peter Quint, sont tous deux morts dans des circonstances étranges. Elle en vient à penser que les enfants sont possédés par les esprits de ces deux personnes....
Louisa Muller makes her Garsington directing debut and we welcome back Richard Farnes (Falstaff, 2018) to conduct with Sophie Bevan (Don Giovanni, 2012) as the Governess and British tenor Ed Lyon making his Garsington debut as Quint. A young governess is sent to a remote country house to care for two children. She becomes increasingly disturbed by their behaviour but is under strict instruction never to bother their guardian in London. Are they innocent or wicked, possessed or just high-spirited?.
Engagée comme gouvernante dans une demeure isolée, une jeune femme est peu à peu convaincue que les deux enfants dont elle doit s'occuper sont possédés....
An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be..
Une jeune femme est engagée par un homme riche mais sinistre pour donner des cours à ses deux enfants dans le domaine isolé de la famille. Quand la femme arrive là-bas, elle constate que les deux enfants ne sont pas tout à fait ce qu'ils semblent être. En fait, ils sont possédés par les esprits du mal..
The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed..
A brilliant staging of Britten's opera..
A governess is hired to look after two neglected children, who show signs of having been corrupted by the insidious influence of the groom Peter Quint. Quint, although hanged for murder, still makes an appearance among the shadows of the manor house along with Miss Jessel, a previous governess who took her own life..
This film adaptation of Henry James' Victorian ghost story changes the location to present day Wellington. Set in a theatre over the course of an evening, Julia finds herself as a last-minute replacement for another actress at the dress rehearsal of a stage play version of The Turn of the Screw, set in 1890. Arriving at the theatre late that night, Julia is immediately thrown on stage and into her role, playing to an empty auditorium. As she interacts with the other characters and the story becomes increasingly terrifying, Julia begins to believe that not only is the fictitious house haunted… but also the theatre itself!.
A remote English country house, and old and faithful housekeeper, two young orphan children and an eager new governess sent down from London to look after them. But all is not quite as it seems in the sheltered world of Bly. Britten's brilliantly scored, insidiously compelling adaptation of Henry James's novella takes its themes of of childish innocence and adult corruption, then twists and turns them to disturbing and ultimately devastating effect..
A young governess arrives to a country house to care for two small orphans. Suddenly she realizes that the mansion is infested with ghosts and evil presences that seek to possess and eventually destroy the children..
In Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of Henry James' masterwork, a naive governess (Helen Field) arrives at a country manor and soon discovers that it holds a murky secret involving her charges and two ghostly servants who wield a sinister influence on them. The taut, atmospheric production also stars Sam Linay, Machiko Obata, Menai Davies and Phyllis Cannan, with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra providing accompaniment..
Louisa Muller makes her Garsington directing debut and we welcome back Richard Farnes (Falstaff, 2018) to conduct with Sophie Bevan (Don Giovanni, 2012) as the Governess and British tenor Ed Lyon making his Garsington debut as Quint. A young governess is sent to a remote country house to care for two children. She becomes increasingly disturbed by their behaviour but is under strict instruction never to bother their guardian in London. Are they innocent or wicked, possessed or just high-spirited?.
A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor..
The tension is palpable in this gripping West Australian Symphony Orchestra production of Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw," an opera based on the well-known novella by Henry James. Soon after agreeing to mind a wealthy man's orphaned niece and nephew, a governess (Eilene Hannan) senses that something about the children isn't normal. But a series of strange events can't possibly be linked to the children -- or can they?.
A film of the opera The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten. A young governess arrives at an old house in the country to look after two orphans. What unfolds is a chilling tale as she experiences strange ghostly encounters with some of the previous occupants of the house and finds herself engaged in a battle to protect the children’s souls from evil. Myfanwy Piper’s libretto of Henry James’s famous short story leaves much to our imagination and Britten’s score is haunting, terrifying and brilliant. Shot on location at Wilton's Music Hall, London, the whole space of the venue, not just the stage, is used to tell the story..
In a remote country house, the newly-appointed governess arrives to take charge of the orphaned Flora and Miles. She must fight to protect them from strange and menacing spirits. But are these apparitions real, or the product of her troubled imagination? And what terrible evil occurred before her arrival? Based on the ghost story by Henry James, this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller reaches new levels of terror and claustrophobia in this spine-chilling production. The disturbingly beautiful music rachets the tension up to breaking point. Hold on tight to your seat, you’re in for quite a night….
Nothing is what it seems in an old English manor. When a new governess arrives, the children entrusted to her care seem to receive visits from the ghosts. What horrors occurred here before her arrival? Are the children innocent? Can we really trust what we see? Based on a ghost story by Henry James, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw is a psychological thriller in chamber opera format..
