“Christofer Elgh’s newly written music is both playful and powerful and it gives a lot of space”. “Likewise, the performance highlights the philosophical sides of Lewis Carolls Reality is turned upside down, upside down, magnified and diminished – nothing is ever as you think. We hear bells ticking and going without anyone really catching up “,/Johan Fingal JP
Composer Christofer Elgh’s specially written chamber opera
Alice in Wonderland the teaparty had its premiere on September 18th 2021 in the Tabergsgruvan (Taberg mine) in Jönköping. The chamber opera is a part of the all-art work SUBTERRANEA III.
Scenkonst Jönköping, the artist collective Subterranea, international artist Sebastian Weissenbacher, the composer Christofer Elgh and Jönköping’s free professional opera group Minopera working together with local actors and youth theatre group Teaterstickorna. Together they presented a cross-art work in an unusual underground enviornment, the mine.
For the third year this cross-artistic project with a regional, national and this year international interest is spreading cultural expressions for the public to be touched by art and nature in harmony. This is done through first performance of Christofer Elgs opera Alice in Wonderland – the teaparty, newly created art, magical lighting design and video art. This creates harmony with the mine’s different environments and taking into account its fragility and uniqueness in nature. In total, there was six performances in Tabergsgruvan during one weekend 18-19 September 2021.
In 2023 “Alice in Wonderland-The Tea Party” was performed at Göteborgsoperan on the 3rd and 5th of November in collaboration with Gothenburg opera youth choir and percussionists from the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.
In 2025 MinOpera performs “Alice i underlandet – tebjudningen” on their tenth anniversary at Spira Cultural Center the 26th of October.
Annika Liljenroth directs and the five soloists are Julia Ojansivu (Alice), Ebba Sandwall (Little Alice), Ann Roach (Hasselmus), Ove Gotting (The Easter Bunny) and Wolfgang Veith (The Mad Hatter), Gothenburg opera youth choir.
“The performance highlights the bizarre and humorous sides of Alice in Wonderland, not least through the fantastic costumes and scenography”
” All artistic expressions complement each other and contribute to a unity – a work of art – and an experience beyond the ordinary “./Johan Fingal JP