None But the Lonely Heart

Synopsis

24 song compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky are combined to create an intimate evening of musical theatre that shows five characters and their contradictory emotions: repressed feelings of love are juxtaposed with the search for intoxicating moments; the grief over broken relationships repeatedly leads to withdrawal and loneliness. An interpersonal dynamic develops in which unfulfillable longings, repressed memories and emotional dependencies of the individual characters are revealed. In a poetically dense sequence of images, the production also alludes to motifs from Tchaikovsky’s biography, which is characterised by ambivalences. Christof Loy's staging includes rarely performed Lieder, interspersed with short works for piano and chamber music. “I don’t know which singer to single out, they were all great.” Opernwelt

Additional Info

• No: A05050783
• Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Artists: Olesya Golovneva, Kelsey Lauritano, Andrea Carè, Vladislav Sulimsky, Mikołaj Trąbka
• Production year: 2021
• Run time: 01:51:00
• Director: Stage Director: Christof Loy
• Producers: Unitel, hr, ARTE Concert, Oper Frankfurt
• Format: 4K