Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland (2007) Opera

Libretto by David Henry Hwang and Unsuk Chin based on the Lewis Carroll books ’Alice in Wonderland’ and ’Through the Looking Glass’. Scene I – Dream I Alice opens a book in the library, which thereupon turns into a treasure chamber. She meets a boy, who’s fate is to carry a mummified cat, and two old men whom she asks in vain to flee before the door to the treasure chamber closes. Scene II – The Pool of Tears Alice follows the White Rabbit down a hole in the ground, falls into the depths and finds herself in front of several locked doors. Alice opens one door with a key and sees a garden full of bright flowers, but the door is too small for her to get through into the garden. Alice drinks from a little bottle with a label on it, on which the words ‚Drink Me‘ are printed, shrinks and is now too small to open the door with the big key. Alice eats a cake from a little box which has a label with ‚Eat Me‘ printed on it, grows again and is now too big to get through the