[THE TURN OF THE SCREW]
Benjamin Britten / THE TURN OF THE SCREW / opera in two acts / text by / Myfanwy Piper / adapted from the story by / Henry James / libretto

ed. London, Boosey and Hawkes 1955; 20,3x12,8; pp. 40 atti 2+prologo

libr. Piper Myfanwy mus. Britten Benjamin

pers. 1. The prologue 2. The governess 3. Miles, and 4. Flora, children in her charge 5. Mrs. Grose the housekeeper 6. Miss Jessel a former governess 7. Quint a former manservant int. Pears Peter (tenor) (1, 7), Vyvyan Jennifer (sopr.) (2), Hemmings David (trebble) (3), Dyer Olive (sopr.) (4), Cross Joan (sopr.) (5), Mandikian Arda (sopr.) (6)

oss.  Iª rappr. Venezia, Fenice, 14 settembre 1954; Iª rappr. inglese, Londra, Sadler's Wells, 6 ottobre 1954. È il fascicolo di accompagnamento all'ed. discografica London FFRR XLL-1207/1208, con la English Opera Group Orchestra, diretta dall'autore (i cantanti sono gli stessi della Iª rappr.). A p. 3: «The line The ceremony of innocence is drowned is taken from a poem by W. B. Yeats [The second Coming]»; «The songs Tom, Tom, the piper's son and Lavender's Blue are traditional nursery rhymes»; «The Latin words [...] are schoolboy's rhyming grammatical rules» e tavola delle scene con i relativi titoli. ling. lat. (I 6)