Opera

The Turn of the Screw

Benjamin Britten

The State Opera

Basic information

Venue

The State Opera

Approximate running time

2 hours 20 minutes, 1 intermission (20 minutes) minutes

Language

In English, surtitles in Czech

The audience will be seated on the stage of the State Opera.

About

A project in cooperation with the Music and Dance Faculty of AMU in Prague, the Music Faculty of JAMU in Brno, and the National Theatre.

Cast

THE PROLOGUE: Vojtěch Pošvář / Matěj Kotrba
THE GOVERNESS: Marie Šimůnková / Anastasiia Babiiuk / Leyla Bakhishova
MILES: Joshua Alvarez / Anna Dostálová
FLORA: Jana Hozmanová / Yelyzaveta Liakh
MRS. GROSE: Kateřina Březinová / Nela Kindigerová
MISS JESSEL: Karolína Lašťovková / Sára Marie Skopalová
PETER QUINT: Jan Tejkal / Vojtěch Pošvář
DEAD GOVERNESSES: Natalia Kalivodová / Viktorie Krbcová / Eva Lišková / Kamila Skladaná / Alexandra Židkova

Academic Chamber Soloists

Conductor: Igor Karpilovskij / Norbert Baxa
Stage director: Eliška Mervartová
Set and costume designer: Kristina Komárková