

When Korean composer Unsuk Chin's opera was first performed by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, it caused a sensation among music critics worldwide. Based on Lewis Carroll's famous and fascinatingly enigmatic novel Alice in Wonderland, it is a seductive, enchanting, sensuous opera set to a modern, ear-pleasing score - a triumph of creative fantasy. Unsuk Chin was born in Seoul in 1961, studied with György Ligeti in Hamburg and now lives in Berlin. She has an acute ear for instrumentation, orchestral colours and rhythmic imagery. Her compositions are modern in language but lyrical in their communicative power. Kent Nagano, a long-time supporter of Chin's music, expertly conducted the Bavarian State Opera and a team of wonderful singer-actors including international stars like Dietrich Henschel and Gwyneth Jones. The opera about Alice's search for her identity - "her reality in the appearance of the world" - as director Achim Freyer put it, switches from delicacy to cuteness to grotesquery and back again. The rather conventional Alice starts following her dreams, meeting a white rabbit that guides her through a wonderland. Alice views it all with amazement and learns - finally returning to the real world, richer for the experience. The phenomenal fairy-tale settings and production were in the hands of Achim Freyer, who created a firework of colour and form. The marvellous costumes and puppets were created by Nina Weitzner, who was named "Costume Designer of the Year" by the German music magazine Opernwelt for her imaginative designs. And in a survey of the magazine's opera critics, Unsuk Chin's opera, which closed Kent Nagano's first season at the Bavarian State Opera, was hailed as the "World Première of the Year". This live recording of the premiere in the Nationaltheater in Munich in June 2007 provides a feast of audiovisual entertainment. AKA: Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland

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1990

اینکهارت
2008

Genesi: La creazione e il diluvio
1994

2003
2011

2025

Der Weisse Massai Krieger
2019

2012

2013

1997

2007
1912

2007

2007

شاه عقرب ۲: ظهور یک جنگجو
2008

2016

2011

Le château des singes
1999

Deutschland Privat - im Land der bunten Träume
2007

2000

2007

2007

2007
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سیرک عجایب : دستیار خون آشام
2009

2007

شاه عقرب
2002

Liebesleben
2007

2007

2007

1995

1943

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2001

エクスクロス 魔境伝説
2007

Stühle im Schnee
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Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer
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