The Turn of the Screw (opera) 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 is based on the novella "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. The opera was commissioned by the Venice Biennale and given its world premiere on 14 September 1954, at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice. The original recording was made during that year, with the
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