A brand new 100-minute adaptation. Sung in Russian. Subtitles in English.

Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Konstantin Shilovsky
Co-Adapted by Obie Award-Winning Dustin Wills & Jacob Ashworth
Newly Arranged by Daniel Schlosberg

Directed by Obie Award-Winning Dustin Wills
Music Directed by Jacob Ashworth

Inside the ornamented drawing rooms of a buttoned-up society, three young outsiders flame into mismatched passion and combust, hurtling toward irreparable choices. Tchaikovsky’s long-suppressed queerness floods into every character of this propulsive drama, as they smash against one of the most romantic operatic scores in history. Our radical adaptation maps the composer’s own complex biography onto his characters and asks — how can we ever break free of the life we are born into?

Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue 25th St., New York, NY 10010

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