Hamlet Echoes

For soprano, viola and piano Text compiled by the composer Based on the original English text by William Shakespeare and the German translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel Partitur und Stimmen - P/ST - soprano, viola and piano - English - German composer: Jost, Christian text writer: Shakespeare, William translator: Schlegel, August Wilhelm 'Hamlet-Echos' comes from the full-length opera 'Hamlet' in which Christian Jost interprets Shakespeare's tragedy as 'story of a surreal journey inward'. By having Hamlet sing in a female voice, Jost emphasizes the universal validity of this statement. The intentional bilingualism stands for Hamlet's inner dialogue in which the viola part joins commentating.