FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS: Music for the Eyes – Episode 3 – The Turn of the Screw

In this episode, ‘Music for the Eyes’ takes Britten’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ as its focus alongside visual art, looking at gothic storytelling, childhood and a sense of the sinister.

GUESTS THIS WEEK
Louisa Muller – Director
Professor Ruth Livesey – 19th Century Literature & Thought, Royal Holloway

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PRESENTERS
Johnny Langridge
Dr Imogen Tedbury

PRODUCER
Nicholas B. Brennan

COVER IMAGE
information of Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor, 1901
Statens Museum for Kunst

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ARTWORKS THIS WEEK
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor, 1901
Statens Museum for Kunst

Johannes Vermeer, Woman reading a letter, c.1662-3
Rijksmuseum

Vilhelm Hammershøi, Dust Motes Dancing in Sunbeams, 1900
Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs kunstnerleksikon

Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior with Ida in a White Chair, 1900
Sotheby’s 22 November 2011

Pieter de Hooch, The Courtyard of a House in Delft, 1658
The National Gallery, London

Image of a ghost, produced by double exposure, 1899
National Archives

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander, 1873
Tate Britain

Édouard Manet, Lola de Valence, 1862
Musée d’Orsay

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PRODUCTION VIDEO CREDITS
The Turn of the Screw
music by Benjamin Britten, libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after a story by Henry James

Music courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited

Garsington Opera’s production, recorded at Wormsley
at a performance in the 2019 Festival

Governess – Sophie Bevan
Prologue/Quint – Ed Lyon
Miles – Leo Jemison
Flora – Adrianna Forbes-Dorant
Mrs Grose – Kathleen Wilkinson
Miss Jessel – Katherine Broderick

Garsington Opera Orchestra

Conductor – Richard Farnes
Director – Louisa Muller
Designer – Christopher Oram
Lighting Designer – Malcolm Rippeth

Production photos © Johan Persson, John Snelling & Julian Guidera

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