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The Turn of the Screw
Date
March 2023
Role
Assistant Costume Designer and Makeup Designer
Location
Judy Bayley Theater (Las Vegas, NV)
Company
UNLV Opera Theatre
Design Team
Director: Linda Lister
Costume Designer: Leah Procita
Lighting Designer: Jasmin Garcia
Scenic Designer: Diante Hernandez
Props Designer: Alexander Carey
Photographer: Hunter Rose Fowler
The Turn of the Screw is a disturbing work, a novelty in the opera world for being something of a horror story with genuine chills. Based on Henry James's novel of the same name, it's an old-fashioned ghost story that touches on issues of a very contemporary nature. Musically, it is one of Britten's most interesting. He divided the narrative into a prologue and 16 relatively episodic scenes. However, he connected them with variations of the "Screw" theme, built around the twelve-note row. The sequence ascends in the first Act and descends in the second.
