In 1876, Russia composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s met two women who would change the course of his life:

• Nadezhda von Meck — patroness of 17 years, whose financial support was conditioned solely on their never meeting face to face.
• Antonina Milyukova — former student, whom he married hoping to cover up his homosexuality and mollify his family and colleagues.

One blossomed into a deep, intimate friendship throughout their correspondence; the other swirled into a disastrous nightmare hovering in the background of what became a stellar career.

An Echo of the Soul reveals Tchaikovsky’s creative process alongside this personal struggle while composing his Fourth Symphony.

For more information email: [email protected]

 

Performances:

Thursday, January 29th @8pm

Friday, January 30th @8pm

Saturday, January 31 @2pm & 8pm

Sunday, February 1 @2pm

 

Tickets:

$30 available for purchase online here

 

Venue:

Temple Ballroom

986 Roulette Ave at Erie St

 

Cast:

Heath Camlis as Piotry Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Find Pastorious as Nadezha von Meck

Dean Valentino as Tchaikovsky

Shayla Hudson as Antonina

 

About the author: Barry T Brodie

Barry T. Brodie is a poet, playwright, actor, director and teacher.

He has written two books: The Language of the Star – Journals of the Magi and Tom Thomson – On the Threshold of Magic (Black Moss Press). His poetry has appeared in Amethyst Review and The Orchards Poetry Journal as well as The Middle Space – Windsor’s Public Art (Black Moss Press) and What Time Can’t Touch: A Love Letter for Amherstburg (Black Moss Press). He held the Chair in Religion and the Arts at Assumption University(2006-2012); co-founded Shö – Art, Spirit & Performance (2012-2020) where he curated 8 seasons of Scattered Ecstasies; and taught at the University of Windsor (2008-2024) on the creative process. The film adaptation of his play, The Thousand Colours of the Morning, about Johannes Brahms and Robert and Clara Schumann, had its premiere at the Paris International Film Festival in February 2025.

 

 

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January 31 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Cost: 30.00

Event Website/Tickets  

Bloomsbury House + temple ballrom

986 ouellette
Windsor,
Phone: (519) 566-1420