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  • Unsuk Chin, Alice in Wonderland
    • Scene I – Dream I
    • Scene II – The Pool of Tears
    • Scene III – In the House of the White Rabbit
    • Interlude I – Advice from a Caterpillar
    • Scene IV – Pig and Pepper
    • Scene V – A Mad Tea Party
    • Scene VI – The Croquet Ground
    • Scene VII – The Trial or Who Stole the Tarts?
    • Finale – Dream II

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opera Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland (world premiere) Achim Freyer (stage director), Kent Nagano (conductor) — With Sally Matthews, Dietrich Henschel...

Achim Freyer (stage director), Kent Nagano (conductor) — With Sally Matthews, Dietrich Henschel...

Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland (world premiere) Achim Freyer (stage director), Kent Nagano (conductor) — With Sally Matthews, Dietrich Henschel...

About

In the last years of his life, Ligeti dreamed of setting Lewis Caroll's famous fairy tale to music. He didn't have the time, but one of his students took up the challenge a few years later. In 2002, Korean composer Unsuk Chin received a commission from the Bavarian State Opera. For her first opera, she offered her interpretation of Alice in Wonderland, adding two of her own dreams to the libretto: “I wanted the world of dreams to be reality in my opera." The score includes many nods to composers such as Ravel, Handel, Elgar, Stravinsky and Puccini, as well as unusual percussion and sounds made by bottles, alarm clocks, kettles, knives and forks. Alice in Wonderland premiered in Munich in June 2007 under the baton of Kent Nagano, with Sally Matthews in the title role and Gwyneth Jones as Queen of Hearts. A resounding success, Achim Freyer's staging plunges us between dream and reality, as the acrobats and puppets move...

© Picture: Wilfried Hösl

Cast

  • Achim Freyer | Stage director
  • Nina Weitzner | Costume designer, Masks, Puppets
  • Sally Matthews | Soprano (Alice)
  • Piia Komsi | Soprano (Cat)
  • Julia Rempe | Soprano (Cat)
  • Dietrich Henschel | Bass-baritone (Duck / Mad Hatter)
  • Andrew Watts | Countertenor (White Rabbit / Badger)
  • Gwyneth Jones | Soprano (Queen of hearts)
  • Cynthia Jansen | Mezzo-soprano (Owl / Duchess / Two)
  • Guy de Mey | Tenor (Mouse / Pat / Cook / Dormouse / Invisible Man)
  • Christian Rieger | Tenor (Old man / Eaglet / Fish-Footman / Five / Executioner)
  • Steven Humes | Bass (Old man / Crab / King of hearts)
  • Rüdiger Trebes | Bass (Dodo / Frog-footman / Seven)
  • Stefan Schneider | Bass-clarinet (Caterpillar)
  • Andrés Máspero | Chorus master
  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester | Orchestra
  • Chor und Kinderchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper
  • Statisterie der Bayerischen Staatsoper
  • Kent Nagano | Conductor

Program

  • Unsuk Chin, Alice in Wonderland
    • Scene I – Dream I
    • Scene II – The Pool of Tears
    • Scene III – In the House of the White Rabbit
    • Interlude I – Advice from a Caterpillar
    • Scene IV – Pig and Pepper
    • Scene V – A Mad Tea Party
    • Scene VI – The Croquet Ground
    • Scene VII – The Trial or Who Stole the Tarts?
    • Finale – Dream II

Details

  • Directed by:
    • Ellen Fellmann
  • Venue: Nationaltheater München (Munich, Germany)
  • Production date: 2007
  • Recording date: 2007
  • Duration: 2 h 03 min
  • Production: © Unitel
  • Available version(s): EN
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