Tag Archives: Claire Barnett-Jones

Turn of the Screw, Royal Opera Linbury Studio, March 2026

This was a great disappointment. Ambiguity is the essence of this Benjamin Britten opera. Are the ghosts real or are they figments of the young governess’s imagination? A production may point one way or the other, but this one used clever lighting to simply make everything very spooky. It missed the ambiguity completely — see …

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The Valkyrie (Die Walküre), ENO, November 2021

The first glimpse of what will be Richard Jones’ new production of Wagner’s Ring, for the English National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, shows some intriguing imagery. Rheingold will appear in the 2022/23 season, with Siegfried and Götterämmerung in 2024 and 2025. See my review of Valkyrie in The Article.

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