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'None but the Lonely Heart' staged by Christof Loy

An intimate theatrical evening 'None but the Lonely Heart' presenting Tchaikovsky’s songs staged by Christof Loy at the Oper Frankfurt.

"Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" (‘None but the lonely heart’), probably the best known of Tchaikovsky’s songs, lends its name to an intimate theatrical evening in which Christof Loy has combined songs or ‘romances’ and instrumental music to create a chamber opera of striking beauty and intensity. Tchaikovsky’s songs cover a stylistic diversity unsurpassed by other Russian composers, often setting enigmatic texts in which the unsaid and unsayable create expressive tensions and encapsulate true human emotions. Given a sumptuous period setting, these qualities create a unique drama in which suppressed love is confronted with longed for moments of passion, and sadness over broken relationships leads to withdrawal and loneliness.

OLESYA GOLOVNEVA Soprano
KELSEY LAURITANO Mezzo-soprano
ANDREA CARÈ Tenor
VLADISLAV SULIMSKY Baritone
MIKOŁAJ TRĄBKA Baritone

MARIUSZ KŁUBCZUK, NIKOLAI PETERSEN Piano
Members of the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Stage Director CHRISTOF LOY
Set and Costume Designer HERBERT MURAUER
Lighting Designer OLAF WINTER
Video Designer RUTH STOFER
Choreographer ANDREAS HEISE

Film Director MICHAEL BEYER
Filmed on 24–26 February 2021 at Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
A production of Unitel in co-production with Oper Frankfurt in cooperation with Arte Concert

[2.110770 / NBD0181V]
Total playing time: 111 minutes
Language: Russian · Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean
DVD: NTSC 16:9 · PCM Stereo and DTS 5.1 · DVD 9 · Region: 0 (Worldwide)
BD: HD 16:9 · PCM stereo and DTS Master Audio 5.1 · BD 50 · Region: A, B, C