The Turn of the Screw - Henry James and Benjamin Britten

Pliny said that in the cry of Avery, you often meet fairies with images of men and women, but they will disappear like fancy. The fantasy of John Aubrey is not usually like an ordinary fantasy. After Worcester's battle, Laird Bocconi appeared to his friend Mr. Middleton under the three keys of the Tower of London. My Lord Middleton asked him if he was dead or alive. He said he died, he said he was a ghost, and he told him he should escape within 3 days and do so in his wife's clothes.

American writer Henry James published a novel "turning screw", "a favorite ghost story of people who do not like ghost stories". And that is an early introduction to the stories of evil children. It is unforgettable as two operas (a script by Myfanwy Piper, created by Benjamin Britten in 1954) and a movie (eerie innocent of Jack Clayton who died in 1961). Dark Hearts of Joseph Conrad was published. As an exploration of the dark side of the soul, it is also worth mentioning what it is considered to be the first novel in the 20th century. Francis Ford Coppola moved this premise to Vietnam to confirm what will happen in 1979. On the other hand, Nicholas Rogge's television movie (1994) was set for the original period.

The following comparison of Henry James's "Helical Turn" and Benjamin Brittin's adaptation to this novel's opera stage reveals the intersection of the two seas, the Atlantic Ocean and the Sea of ​​Time. He was born in the United States and his brothers, sisters, father and mother, but Henry James is not at all British. This ghost story is usually an American and never reached the level of sarcastic construction of the Gothic-level British story, although not at the satirical level of Oscar Wilde. It is also a great revelator of the ghost story known as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Many TV series

In 1967, BBC asked Britton to create an opera for the TV series. Owen Wing Grave is like a rotation of a screw based on the ghost story of Henry James. In the 1960's, Britton discovered that composition was much slower than his rich young man; he told a 28-year-old composer, Nicolas Ma, "to complete as much work as possible, This will be even more difficult. "It was not until August 1970 that he completed the score of the new opera. In May 1971, Owen Wenlav was aired for the first time in the UK and was aired in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Switzerland, the USA, Yugoslavia