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, whos 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 br, br,