Alice in Wonderland - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Alice in Wonderland
Opera in eight scenes | Reduced orchestration in collaboration with the composer by 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 into the hole of a rabbit hole. She plunges ever deeper into the shaft, as if into the bottomless depths 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 encounters the ever-haunted White Rabbit, ends up 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 brought to trial by the cruel Queen of Hearts. The simple yet philosophical question "Who am I?" leads Alice less to realization than to ever new questions. The Korean composer Unsuk Chin came to Hamburg in 1988 as a student of György Ligeti and is one of today's most renowned composers. In 2024, she was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, considered the "Nobel Prize for Music." Her music deliberately defies 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 a variety of styles, creating a fascinatingly dazzling world. Alice's encounters become surreal dream images, far removed from anything fairytale-like. Director Elisabeth Stöppler, who will be directing for the first time at the MusikTheater an der Wien, takes up the dream logic of the work and tells the story of Alice in Wonderland as a human being's constant encounter with herself.
In English with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of each performance
In cooperation with WienModern
Subject to change.
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 into the hole of a rabbit hole. She plunges ever deeper into the shaft, as if into the bottomless depths 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 encounters the ever-haunted White Rabbit, ends up 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 brought to trial by the cruel Queen of Hearts. The simple yet philosophical question "Who am I?" leads Alice less to realization than to ever new questions. The Korean composer Unsuk Chin came to Hamburg in 1988 as a student of György Ligeti and is one of today's most renowned composers. In 2024, she was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, considered the "Nobel Prize for Music." Her music deliberately defies 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 a variety of styles, creating a fascinatingly dazzling world. Alice's encounters become surreal dream images, far removed from anything fairytale-like. Director Elisabeth Stöppler, who will be directing for the first time at the MusikTheater an der Wien, takes up the dream logic of the work and tells the story of Alice in Wonderland as a human being's constant encounter with herself.
In English with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of each performance
In cooperation with WienModern
Subject to change.