The Turn of the Screw (opera) not to betray him. Hysterical, Miles confesses that he took the letter. The Governess demands to know who put Miles up to it. Miles blurts out Quint's name. At the mention of his name, Quint's ghost vanishes and Miles falls dead on the floor. A weeping Governess cradles the dead child in her arms, singing aloud of her grief and wondering if she did the right thing after all. For the children's music, Britten drew words and melody from a number of traditional British nursery rhymes, including "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" and "Lavender's Blue". Of particular note is Miles'
The Turn of the Screw by Rebecca Lenkiewicz was presented in a co-production with Hammer at the Almeida Theatre, London, in January 2013. There have been numerous film adaptations of the novel. The critically acclaimed "The Innocents" (1961), directed by Jack Clayton, and Michael Winner's prequel "The Nightcomers" (1972) are two particularly notable examples. Other feature film adaptations include Rusty Lemorande's 1992 eponymous adaptation (set in the 1960s); Eloy de la Iglesia's Spanish-language "Otra vuelta de tuerca" ("The Turn of the Screw", 1985); "Presence of Mind" (1999), directed by Atoni Aloy; "In a Dark Place" (2006), directed by Donato Rotunno and Walter Lima Jr.'s Brazilian-Portuguese-language