The Turn of the Screw
Sunday 1 April 2007 15:00-16:00 (Radio 3)
A series in which John Evans talks to distinguished interpreters of Britten's operas about performances and recordings with which they are closely associated and about the problems and pleasures of performing Britten.
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7/10. His guest is the veteran director Basil Coleman, who worked closely with Britten during the 1950s. Coleman also directed the premiere of Britten's chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, based on Henry James' famous ghost story, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1954.
