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Opera in eight scenes | Reduced orchestration in collaboration with the composer Lloyd Moore (2011-12)
Libretto by David Henry Hwang and Unsuk Chin based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Austrian premiere

Alice falls down the hole of a rabbit burrow. She plunges deeper into the shaft, as if into the bottomless depth of her own self. "Who am I?" is the central question of Unsuk Chin's opera Alice in Wonderland, premiered in 2007. In this Wonderland, Alice meets the always hurried white rabbit, lands in a sea of tears with strange animals, receives advice from a caterpillar, is a guest at the Mad Hatter's tea party, and is put on trial by the cruel Queen of Hearts. The equally simple yet philosophical question "Who am I?" leads Alice not so much to enlightenment as to ever-new questions. The Korean composer Unsuk Chin came to Hamburg in 1988 as a student of György Ligeti and is among the renowned contemporary composers. In 2024, she was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, which is considered the "Nobel Prize for Music." Her music consciously eludes all stylistic classifications and instead focuses on timbre, light, and dreams. In Alice in Wonderland, her first opera premiered in 2007, Unsuk Chin humorously incorporates various styles, creating a fascinatingly vibrant world. Alice's encounters become surreal dream images far removed from all fairy-tale elements. The director Elisabeth Stöppler, who will stage for the first time at the MusikTheater at the Wien, explores the dream logic of the work and tells the story of Alice in Wonderland as a relentless encounter of a person with themselves.

In English with German and English surtitles
Work introduction each 30 minutes before performance starts


In cooperation with WienModern

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