Hin und zurück

Hin und zurück (There and Back) is an operatic 'sketch' (Op. 45a) in one scene by Paul Hindemith, with a German libretto by Marcellus Schiffer.

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 (Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse) were performed on the same evening. The performance was re-enacted in October 2013 by the Gotham Chamber Opera in New York City.

In a kind of dramatic palindrome, a tragedy unfolds involving jealousy, murder and suicide. and is then replayed with the lines sung in reverse order to produce a happy ending.

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