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
The Turn of the Screw "Através da Sombra" ("Through the Shadow", 2016). "The Others" (2001) is not an adaptation but has some themes in common with James's novella. In 2018, director Floria Sigismondi filmed an adaptation of the novella, called "The Turning", on the Kilruddery Estate in Ireland. Television films have included a 1959 American adaptation as part of "Ford Startime" directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Ingrid Bergman; the West German "Die sündigen Engel" ("The Sinful Angel", 1962), a 1974 adaptation directed by Dan Curtis, adapted by William F. Nolan; a French adaptation entitled "Le Tour d'écrou" ("The Turn of the Screw", 1974); a