Organization

Conductor

Scott Schoonover

Stage director

Nancy Bell

Singer

Soprano

Christine Brewer

Mrs. Grose

Meroe Khalia Adeeb

Governess

Alexandra Martinez-Turano

Miss Jessel

Tenor

James Stevens

Prologue

Peter Quint

Union Avenue Opera

English

The Turn of the Screw

Saint Louis

United States

Union Avenue Christian Church

The Turn of the Screw Britten

Public

Approved

Not all secrets stay in the grave…such is the case at Bly Manor. 

Hired by a mysterious and absent guardian, a young governess travels to a remote English country house to care for two precocious young orphans. Greeted by the housekeeper Mrs. Grose (Christine Brewer), she soon is faced with the possibility that something sinister is afoot. What follows are a series of increasingly ominous supernatural accounts with two of the manor’s previous staff—Miss Jessel, the children’s depraved former governess and the valet, Peter Quint, her diabolical lover.  Based on the mid-19th century horror novella by Henry James, Britten’s seductive, luminous, and brilliantly structured score builds delicious tension to create one of opera’s greatest ghost stories that will have you gripping the edge of your seat.

The Turn of the Screw by Britten, From (2023/2023), Directed by Nancy Bell,, Conductor Scott Schoonover, Union Avenue Christian Church, Saint Louis, United States

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