Benjamin Britten, Henry James and The Turn of the Screw
Benjamin Britten and Henry James were very related to the city of Florence. Here was represented the Italian premiere of several Britten's works, even including The Turn of the Screw, and here James went on holyday on Bellosguardo villa. On this day some well-known Italian scholars will address issues relating to various aspects of the productions of the two artists and the opera The Turn of the Screw in particular.
Program
10.00
Institutional greetings
10.15
Luca Scarlini
The changing reality. A portrait of Henry James between America and Europe
11.00
Coffee break
11.15
Carlo Sisi
"Hours of Tuscany " : Henry James in Florence
12.00
Leonardo Previero
Unearthly music: sound of paranormal events in everyday life and in art
15.00
Francesco Ermini Polacci
"The innocence drowned" : the history and meanings of The Turn of the Screw
15.45
Giovanni Vitali
"Malo, malo, malo" . The Florentine 's premiere of The Turn of the Screw
16.30
Coffee break
16.45
Alberto Batisti
Nursery Crimes: Britten 's Children
17.30
Alessandro Mormile
Peter Pears, twentieth-century icon of the English style of singing
