Behind the Scenes: John Wilson and Opera Glassworks

In March, conductor John Wilson was at Wilton's Music Hall in London rehearsing Benjamin Britten's Turn of The Screw for Opera Glassworks, when lockdown happened. All the tickets had been sold, the costumes were ready, the set was in place and the curtain about to go up. Then the production came to a crashing halt. There was too much to lose, and this programme tells the story of how, months later, the opera was re-conceived, re-imagined and rescheduled under the new restrictions