The Hamlet Machine
Music theatre in five parts
Libretto
Wolfgang Rihm, after the play by Heiner Müller (1977)
Premiere
30 March 1987, Mannheim (Nationaltheater)
Cast
HAMLET I (male actor, old)
HAMLET II (male actor, young)
HAMLET III (baritone)
OPHELIA (soprano)
OPHELIA'S DOUBLES: Marx (soprano), Lenin (soprano), Mao (mezzo-soprano)
3 NAKED WOMEN, VOICES from the casket (soprano, soprano, mezzo-soprano)
4 LAUGHING PEOPLE (2 female and 2 male actors)
3 SCREAMING PEOPLE (3 male actors)
Place
allegorical place
Time
allegorical time