Product: Britten - The Turn of the Screw / Davis, Donath, June, Tear [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
An extraordinary, beautifully acted and sung rendition
Filmed in Czechoslovakia, with a cast that seems perfectly suited physically to the James' novel's descriptions, Turn of the Screw has the added advantage of Britten's "regulars" (Peter Pears et al) providing the music to which the actors flawlessly lipsynch. The atmosphere evoked visually and musically does full service to both the intricacies and shading of the opera, and to the psychological ambiguities of the plot and characters. Truly one of the best filmed, sung, and acted opera videos in recent memory.