Opera Columbus presents Benjamin Britten's operatic horror story in the Southern Theatre, Wednesday, Sept. 27, Friday, Sept. 29 and Sunday, Oct. 1.
Based on the novella of the same name by Henry James, The Turn of the Screw concerns a governess employed at a crumbling Victorian era mansion and the two children in her care. Miles and Flora appear to be charming, boisterous kids.
But all is not as it seems.
Two previous caregivers, governess Miss Jessel and handyman Peter Quint, are dead.
Or are they? What did they do, and what do they want with these children? Neither James in his text nor Britten in his music tell a definitive story.
, a stage director with an international career, from the Juilliard School and the Metropolitan Opera to the Vienna Opera and La Scala, Milan, is in Columbus to direct The Turn of the Screw. Wadsworth stopped