A voice that sings of love & sorrow
12 October 2026, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Tchaikovsky’s personal life was infamously turbulent, but what do we truly know about his inner emotional world? How, despite legal prohibitions when it came to male homosexuality in Imperial Russia, did he navigate his private life? In this lecture recital, Philip Ross Bullock – author of a 2016 biography of Tchaikovsky – argues that the composer’s songs represent an intimate diary of his innermost thoughts and feelings.
