“Alice in Wonderland” in Munich

"The labyrinthine fantasy of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” begins in deceptively lulling tones, with the idyllic phrase “All in the golden afternoon.” Unsuk Chin’s opera “Alice in Wonderland,” which recently had its première at the Bavarian State Opera, in Munich, opens in distinctly more ominous fashion...
Chin, who was born in Seoul in 1961, and has been living in Berlin since 1988, has a knack for binding together seemingly irreconcilable extremes. A youthful enthusiast of the late-twentieth-century European avant-garde, she studied in the eighties with György Ligeti, a pioneer of alien soundscapes."

To read Alex Ross's complete article from The New Yorker, click HERE