Directors: Achim Freyer
Studio: Eklasse / EuroArts
Rating: NR
Genre: Opera
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About This DVD
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. This amazing theatrical and musical wonderland can
now be experienced on DVD!
| Audio Format: | PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 |
| Video Format: | Widescreen 16:9 |
| Languages: | - |
| Subtitles: | Korean, German, English, French, Spanish |
| Country Made: | Korea |
| Region Code: | 3 |
| Year Made: | 2008 |
| Running Time: | 123 |
| Special Features: | - |
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