FULL KALEA BUTALSORO (Jieun Lee) Worldpremiere Seoul 2025 Youdae WON, Chaerin HONG, Pildoo JI, Soonhee KIM, Jimin KIM, Byunghyuk CHOI, Paul OH

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: KALEA BUTALSORO   
• Composer: JIEUN LEE  
• Libretto: JAECHUNG KIM    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: KEPCO ART CENTER, SEOUL, South Korea  
• Recorded: March 1, 2025
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Youdae WON, Chaerin HONG, Pildoo JI, Soonhee KIM, Jimin KIM, Byunghyuk CHOI, Paul OH
• Conductor: Gum Ryeon CHUNG   
• Orchestra: MINERVA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA  
• Chorus: MET OPERA CHORUS, LK CHOIRS  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Art Farm LK  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Composer Jieun LEE and Librettist Jaechung KIM’s new opera Kalea, which deals with the climate crisis, rising sea levels, and the future of AI and the environment, will have its world premiere in KEPCO ART CENTER, Seoul, February 2025. Join us in this exciting story that takes place in Butalsoro, a new land for surviving humans set on a future Earth. Become Butali, a new species of Butalsoro, and board the great ship of Opera Butalsoro.

Story Line Background :
In the futuristic city of Butalsoro, a maritime city in the year 2187, the Telos, the last migrants from the South, arrived in Butalsoro on a festive night of a blue moon. This is after a kalea (sea storm) from 2096 causes global sea level rise, and a third of the planet has already been destroyed. The subsequent Dark Ages of global destruction, with the successful demise of the Polynesian peoples, accelerated the Great Migration to Butalsoro, the last bastion of humanity.

UN HABITAT has been building floating cities for 100 years to save humanity by creating an international maritime city called Butalsoro, which is already a massive multi-ethnic maritime city. Butalsoro is a representative capital for humanity, AI, and the ecosystem as a whole, and it’s also a place where we can all come together to prevent another humanity’s last forward base in preparation for Kalea, which could happen again and wipe us out. It is the most prosperous of UN HABITAT’s floating cities, freedom and cosmopolitan city.

Plot : A festive night when the Telos, a legendary people near the Banda and Arafur seas, immigrate to the floating city of Butalsoro. It’s the first night in 100 years with a blue moon. Anavis, the princess of the Telos, brings the future energy source Regiocrux to Butalsoro and gives it to Baik Eugene, the city’s chairman and her lover, to use peacefully to protect humanity. Kane and Kanaloa, evil forces that straddle the line between human and divine, seek to kill Anavis and Baek Eugene, steal the Regiocrux, and conquer the world. The Kalea, which will destroy the Earth, is on its way…

The setting Story : the near future of 2187. In the subtropical rainforest, a mix of mangroves and futuristic technology. futuristic maritime city of Butalsoro. 100 years after the creation of the floating city, immigration from many countries has already begun to flow into Butalsoro.

Butalsoro has become the capital of a multi-ethnic nation. UN HABITAT will build a large-scale floating city on the sea and name the international center of UN HABITAT “Butalsoro”. (Transcription: Beginning in 2096, explosive global environmental change causes sea levels to rise rapidly and The cataclysmic Kalea (a giant sea storm in the shape of a snake), which destroyed many countries near the equator and many countries near the equator, and many peoples in the Indian and Pacific oceans near the equator. The UN is preparing for unpredictable climate catastrophes starting in 2040, the floating city has been further developed to create an international city called ‘Butalsoro’ becomes a refuge for those who have survived Kalea over the past 50 years. By 2180, more than 70 ethnic groups from more than 30 countries live in Butalsoro. Finally, in 2187, the Telos, a tribe of legendary islands near the Banda and Arafur Seas, arrived in Butalsoro.

The legendary Telos come to Butalsoro on the night of the Blue Moon Festival. They bring with them an absolute energy source called REGIOCRUX. As a cosmopolitan city on the front line between the inland and the sea, Butalsoro is the hub of all transportation and the departure point for tourist spacecraft to space. Continental trains terminate in Butalsoro. The earth is severely degraded, with rising sea levels and freezing up to 60 degrees latitude (near Mongolia).

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