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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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Rusalka, Royal Opera, February 2023

Can a force of nature acquire a soul? This is what the water nymph Rusalka wants, to become human. As she says to her father the water spirit Vodník, humans have souls and go to heaven when they die. But souls are full of sin, says Vodník, …  and of love she responds. Dvořak’s opera Rusalka pits the powers of nature, particularly …

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