Benjamin Britten The Turn of the Screw

Rather than abandon the production, Opera Glass Works chose to rethink it entirely. Benjamin Britten’s haunting chamber opera was reimagined for the screen, transforming constraint into creative force. Filmed during the stillness of lockdown, this version leans into isolation, ambiguity, and psychological unease, allowing the opera’s ghostly tensions to feel more intimate and unsettling than ever before. What emerges is not a compromise, but a striking reinvention—an opera shaped by its moment in history.

Rialto Recommends This is The Turn of the Screw as you’ve never experienced it: austere, intimate, and quietly unnerving. Born from disruption and refined by necessity, this filmed opera captures the eerie power of Britten’s work with startling clarity, making it an essential watch for lovers of opera, theatre, and boundary-pushing performance.