DEBORAH WARNER
theatre - opera - installations
director
photographs © Neil Libbert
The Turn of the Screw,
1997/8, 2002
Benjamin Britten
libretto by Myfanwy Piper after Henry James's novella
Royal Opera House
1997 Barbican Theatre, London
1998 MC 93 Bobigny, Paris
2002 Royal Opera House, London
Performances: Barbican Theatre 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11 October 1997; MC 93 Bobigny, Paris 12, 14, 15, 18, 19 January 1998; Royal Opera House 7, 10, 12, 14, 16 January 2002
Creative Team
Conductor - Colin Davis (ROH 1997), David Syrus (Bobigny), Daniel Harding (ROH 2002)
Director - Deborah Warner
Set Design - Tom Pye
Costumes - John Bright
Lighting - Jean Kalman
1997 Cast
Narrator / Peter Quint - Ian Bostridge
Governess - Joan Rodgers
Miles - Edward Burrowes
Flora - Pippa Woodrow
Mrs Grose - Jane Henschel
Miss Jessel - Vivian Tierney
Bobigny
Mrs Grose - Gillian Knight
2002 Cast
Narrator / Peter Quint - Ian Bostridge
Governess - Joan Rodgers
Miles - Julian Leang
Flora - Caroline Wise
Mrs Grose - Jane Henschel
Miss Jessel - Vivian Tierney