Alice in Wonderland opera

Music by Unsuk Chin.

Adapted by David Henry Hwang, and Unsuk Chin after Lewis Caroll

World première by the Bayerische Staatsoper! The initially conventional Alice follows her dreams. There she meets a white rabbit with a waistcoat and a pocket watch, who guides her through Wonderland. Alice views it all with amazement and learns -- finally returning to the real world richer for the experience. The moral of the tale: we should all follow more white rabbits.

Korean composer Unsuk Chin wrote this opera based on the eponymous novel by Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland: modern music that pleases the ear. Modern opera -- seductive, enchanting, sensuous -- and anything but hyper-intellectual. Kent Nagano conducts. The fairy-tale setings and production are in the hands of Achim Freyer. Only white rabbits guide us better through Wonderland.

In English with German surtitles.
http://www.bayerische.staatsoper.de/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• opera
• alice
• in
• wonderland
• unsuk
• chin
• lewis
• carroll

[MrRumpwrestler]

Here's a work that is immediately forgotten. It's awful from start to finish.

[futuristfood]

i love it.

[icylakepaxphile]

@rumpwrestler so funny. you dare call 'one of the most gifted contemporary musique composer in our time' the third rate...

[KYUNGILNAM]

too much stravinsky

[MrShaun42088]

very trippy!!! i agree metalandpunk... WTF??????

[RuniteSolid]

never again...

[metalandpunksuck]

oh my god I'm tripping out so bad...

[rumpwrestler]

It's amazing that Nagano could have invited such a third rate composer with little ability to compose ALICE and in that house. This is just trash, from beginning to end. German Kitsch at it worst! Even on the dvd they had to move the cameras around alot to try and get the viewer to stay awake.

[MondrosenPrime]

I've seen this on DVD, very creepy yet mesmerizing. It's brilliant, even if you don't like opera singing, the stage theatrical would captivate you.

[LindseyLullabye]

This is creepy and strangely interesting at the same time.