Published: 01 August 2011
Category: Vocal & Opera

Susan Bickley will sing the role of Mrs Grose for Glyndebourne this summer in Jonathan Kent’s eerie production from 2007 of Britten’s Turn of the Screw. There are 8 performances, with the opening night on 11th August. Glyndebourne on Tour’s Music Director, Jakub Hrůša, conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra.Turn of the Screw is one of two productions from Glyndebourne this year that is to be relayed live into cinemas. The performance on the 21st August will be broadcast live and there will be a special screening at the Science Museum in London, as well as screenings at Picturehouse cinemas across the country. The performance will also be streamed live on The Guardian website, where people watching will be able to post their comments as they watch in real time. The plan will be to release a film of this production, with the same cast, on DVD too, to be released in 2012.

Meanwhile Opus Arte will release on DVD and Blu-ray in August their film of the world premiere of Anna Nicole from the Royal Opera House in February 2011, in which Susan created the role of Virgie. A young Playboy model, an octogenarian billionaire husband, intrusive media fascination and a tragically early death: this is a roller-coaster of a real contemporary life for this opera by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas, who also wrote the libretto for Jerry Springer: the Opera. The story of Anna Nicole Smith is performed under the brilliant and idiosyncratic direction of Richard Jones and the baton of Antonio Pappano, Music Director of The Royal Opera. This was a major event of the Royal Opera House’s 2010-11 season and Susan’s performance as Anna’s foul-mouthed mother, providing commentary on her daughter’s behaviour, was critically acclaimed. Click here to watch the trailer for the DVD.

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