Pennsylvania Opera Theater di San Domingo" (1982), Weil's "The Threepenny Opera" (1984), Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" (1987), Henry Purcell's "The Fairy-Queen" (1988), and Robert Ward's "The Crucible" (1989). The company's final performance was of Mozart's "Così fan tutte" on May 14, 1993 at the Merriam Theater with Jennifer Jones as Fiordiligi, Janine Hawley as Dorabella, Matthew Lau as Guglielmo, Robert Baker as Ferrando, Sara Seglem as Despina, and Robert Holden as Don Alfonso. Pennsylvania Opera Theater The Pennsylvania Opera Theater (TPOT) was an American opera company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1975 by Barbara Silverstein, the company presented an annual
The Turn of the Screw Screw" was intended as anything other than a straightforward ghost story, and James certainly wrote ghost stories that did not depend on the narrator's imagination. For example, "Owen Wingrave" includes a ghost that causes its title character's sudden death, although no one actually sees it. James's "Notebooks" entry indicates that he was inspired originally by a tale he heard from Edward White Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury. There are indications that the story James was told was about an incident in Hinton Ampner, where in 1771 a woman named Mary Ricketts moved from her home after seeing the apparitions of