Britten's

In an age of shock-value opera stagings, it has become common to stuff the veiled implications of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw into one-dimensional little-shop-of-horrors productions.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

Britten's orchestrations conjure a mesmerizing psychology in sound, with a large toolbox of instrumental combinations performed by just thirteen virtuoso musicians.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

* Britten's trip, which includes an interactive question and answer session, will be tweeted from University of Salford twitter stream from 11.30am.

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Britten's opera premiered a half-century later in a post-Freudian one.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

Speculation focuses on the sensitive subject of how much autobiography was in Benjamin Britten's depiction of Miles and Quint.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

Worse yet, Britten's beautiful sea interludes, which were handled so well by the orchestra under Steuart Bedford, were treated as little more than scene change music with the curtain down and lots of rumbling backstage.

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For instance, we can hear Copland-esque rhythmic jauntiness in mailman Mario's funny exchanges with Neruda and out-takes of Britten's Peter Grimes to indicate foreboding, and even hints of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in some choral passages.

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For instance, we can hear Copland-esque rhythmic jauntiness in mailman Mario's funny exchanges with Neruda and out-takes of Britten's Peter Grimes to indicate foreboding, and even hints of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in some choral passages.

Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season Donna Perlmutter 2010

For instance, we can hear Copland-esque rhythmic jauntiness in mailman Mario's funny exchanges with Neruda and out-takes of Britten's Peter Grimes to indicate foreboding, and even hints of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in some choral passages.

Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season Donna Perlmutter 2010

Britten's musical structure is as immaculately outfitted and precisely lethal as the collection of blades in a Swiss Army knife.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011