The Turn of the Screw (opera) composer conducting. Described as one of the most dramatically appealing English operas, the opera in two acts has a prologue and sixteen scenes, each preceded by a variation on the twelve-note 'Screw' theme. Typically of Britten, the music mixes tonality and dissonance, with Britten's recurrent use of a twelve-tone figure being perhaps a nod to the approach of Arnold Schoenberg. Thematically, the play gives a central role to a line borrowed from W. B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming": "The ceremony of innocence is drowned." The opera was given its British premiere on 6 October 1954 by the Sadler's Wells
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novella) faces of Boris, Zinovy, and Fyodor in the water. The two women briefly resurface, still alive, but Katerina grabs Sonya, and they both drown. Leskov's story inspired an opera of the same name by Dmitri Shostakovich, ballet "Lady Macbeth '77 (Katarina Izmailova)" by Yugoslav composer Rudolf Brucci, the 1962 Yugoslavian film "Sibirska Ledi Magbet" ("Siberian Lady Macbeth") directed by Andrzej Wajda, 1989 Soviet film "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" by Roman Balayan, and the 2016 British film by William Oldroyd, "Lady Macbeth". Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novella) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ( "Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo