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 Pape. In October 1898 the novella appeared with the short story "Covering End" in a volume titled "The Two Magics", published by Macmillan in New York City and by Heinemann in London. James revised "The Turn of the Screw" ten years later for his "New York Edition". In "The Collier's Weekly Version of The Turn of the Screw" (2010), the tale is presented in its original serial form with a detailed analysis of the changes James made over the years. Among many other revisions, James changed the children's ages. "The Turn of the Screw" has been the subject of numerous