Oberlin

Excerpted from ClevelandClassical.com:

"Are the ghosts of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel in Benjamin Britten's chamber opera The Turn of the Screw real, or just the product of the overactive imagination of the young governess who chronicled this "curious story" in her own hand? Stage director Jonathon Field thinks they're for real.

His Oberlin Opera Theater production, which opened for four performances last week in Hall Auditorium, frames the entire action behind a gauzy scrim. Projections layer ectoplasmic images over the dimly-lit figures of the former valet and governess of the manor house named Bly who return after their violent deaths to lay claim to the souls of the children Miles and Flora. No, the Governess isn't making things up!"

Read the full article from ClevelandClassical.com writer Daniel Hathaway.