The Turn of the Screw (opera) used in the lesson scene have been examined in more detail for their paedophilic innuendos. The line "The ceremony of innocence is drowned" sung by Quint and Miss Jessel is taken from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. Notes Cited sources Other sources The Turn of the Screw (opera) The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas". The libretto
The Cenci the UK was by the Trinity College of Music on July 9-11, 1998. In 1951, British classical composer Havergal Brian composed an opera based on the Shelley play entitled "The Cenci", an opera in eight scenes. The opera premiered in 1997 in the UK in a performance in London by the Millennium Sinfonia conducted by James Kelleher.. In 1971, "Beatrix Cenci" premiered, an opera in two acts by Alberto Ginastera to a Spanish libretto by the composer William Shand. Other works titled "The Cenci" include an 1837 novella by Stendhal and an 1840 true crime essay by Alexandre Dumas, père,