Following the success of Beloved Clara, another evening of words and piano music scripted by Lucy Parham.

Throughout his life, Franz Liszt burned the candle at both ends. A child prodigy who became the greatest keyboard virtuoso of his time, he was also a prolific composer, whose output ranged from hundreds of piano pieces to symphonies, tone poems, songs and oratorios.

An indefatigable traveller, a friend and supporter of Berlioz, Schumann, Chopin and Wagner, his life was crammed full of incident and romance, and he was drawn to women like a moth to a flame. "A Heart in Pilgrimage" was how he once described his romantic life, reflecting also that his choices with women had often been unwise ones.

Drawn largely from his prolific and colourful letters and interspersed with some of his most ecstatic and expressive piano music, Odyssey of Love is a portrait of his relationship with the two most important women in his life: the aristocratic freethinking rebel and mother of his three children, Marie d'Agoult and the bizarre cigar-smoking intellectual Princess Carolyne von Sayn Wittgenstein.

Odyssey of Love premièred at the Wigmore Hall in February 2008 in the London Pianoforte Series with actors Joanna David and Martin Jarvis. Other actors have included Rosalind Ayres, Orla Charlton, Stanley Townsend and Henry Goodman. Recent and future performances include the Salisbury Playhouse, Rye Festival, Sao Lourenco Algarve, Beaumaris Festival, St. George’s Bristol, Chelsea Festival and Bury St Edmunds Festival, Royal Hall Harrogate, Lincoln Festival and Sheffield Festival. The US première took place in December 2008 at LA Theatreworks, Los Angeles. This will be broadcast on National Public Radio across the USA this year.

The Cast: