Description operatic sketch Composer Paul Hindemith Language German | First performance 15 July 1927 Librettist Marcellus Schiffer | |
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Premiere 17 July 1927 (1927-07-17)
Baden-Baden Music Festival Similar Neues vom Tage, Mörder - Hoffnung der Frauen, Das Nusch‑Nuschi, Die Harmonie der Welt, Sancta Susanna | ||
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Hin und zurück (Back and forth) is an operatic 'sketch' (Op. 45a) in one scene by Paul Hindemith, with a German libretto by Marcellus Schiffer.
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Hindemith wrote the piece for a collection of miniature operas presented on 17 July 1927 at the Baden-Baden Music Festival in the Theater Baden-Baden. The work lasts for just 12 minutes. Other short works by Darius Milhaud (L'enlèvement d'Europe), Kurt Weill (Mahagonny-Songspiel) and Ernst Toch (Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse) were performed the same evening. The performance was re-enacted in October 2013 by the Gotham Chamber Opera in New York City.
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Synopsis
In a kind of dramatic palindrome, a tragedy unfolds involving jealousy, murder and suicide, which is then replayed with the lines sung in reverse order to produce a happy ending.