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Opera

Glyndebourne’s Turn of the Screw: horrors of the most innocent and creepy kind

In I due Foscari at the Royal Opera House, however, nightmares were more artistic than psychological

25 October 2014

9:00 AM

25 October 2014

9:00 AM

The Turn of the Screw

Glyndebourne Tour, until 28 November

I due Foscari

Royal Opera, until 2 November

We all know that ‘They fuck you up your mum and dad’, but nowhere is this more reliably (and violently) true than in the opera house. If you have the misfortune to be born into an operatic family you can expect to be murdered by your own mother (Médée, Lucrezia Borgia), killed by your grandmother (Jenufa), or even bumped off by a hitman hired by your father (Rigoletto).

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