Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart
Off Broadway, BAM Fisher
Reviewed by Weston Clay
BOTTOM LINE: The story of Tchaikovsky's strange and intimate relationship with the patroness he never met, beautifully interwoven with music and solo ballet.
Piotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck never met. The relationship between the legendary Russian composer and his widowed patroness, whose financing allowed him to fully pursue his talents in music, was nonetheless intensely intimate. Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart, Eve Wolf’s play presented by Ensemble for the Romantic Century at BAM...
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