Real-life triangle around the composer's darkest masterpiece yields fitfully strong drama David Hemmings was, by his own later admission, a knowing and bumptious boy when Britten cast him as the ill-fated Miles in his operatic adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. The upheaval Hemmings wrought in Aldeburgh's Crag House when Britten and his life-partner Peter Pears were living there has potential for a si…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:36AM on February 17, 2024