State Opera South Australia has announced the remainder of its 2021 season. Following its one-off, semi-staged performance of Voss on 17 September, the company will stage a new production of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and a revival of Lindy Hume’s The Barber of Seville. Teddy Tahu Rhodes will also perform in concert accompanied by Guy Noble.

Britten’s chilling, ghostly opera The Turn of the Screw is based on Henry James’ gothic novel about a young governess and the two young children she looks after in an English manor house, with terrifying secrets. The opera was last seen in Australia in 2005 when Opera Queensland staged it at the Conservatorium Theatre, with Roger Press directing Neil Armfield’s original Opera Australia production, which dates back to 1987. OA last staged it in 2002.

Stuart Maunder

Stuart Maunder. Photograph courtesy of State Opera South Australia

Artistic Director Stuart Maunder will direct the production for State Opera South Australia. It will be the first time he has directed Britten’s chamber opera, which is one of the pillars of 20th-century opera – a dream that Maunder cannot wait...