The Turn of the Screw review – creepy and challenging, ENO’s new Britten staging is an ambiguous triumph
Coliseum, LondonIsabella Bywater’s intelligent and demanding production injects fresh menace into Henry James’s tale of a ghosts and dark histories These days, the Turn of the Screw has become an operatic standby. So you might think it would be hard to inject freshly original layers of menace into Benjamin Britten’s claustrophobically taut adaptation of Henry…