Henry James

Opera Album Review: Still Haunting After All These Years — Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw”

February 17, 2023
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A new recording of Benjamin Britten’s remarkable 1954 opera packs considerable ghostly punch.

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Film Review: “What Maisie Knew” — Henry James’ Dark Screwball Comedy

May 27, 2013
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The astute filmmakers, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, seem not at all intimidated by Henry James’s formidable prose.

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Classical Music Review: ‘Turn of the Screw’

February 6, 2010
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Reviewed By Caldwell Titcomb The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) initiated this week what it calls Opera Annex by moving out of its usual venue for its production of Benjamin Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw. The site chosen was the Park Plaza Castle, built in 1891 as a Boston armory.

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