The production was the first ever contemporary Kazakhstan opera, and every performance was sold out, Chung said. Two American composers joined Chung in Kazakhstan to create the musical score for the opera. The 45-minute production was entirely musical from beginning to end, combining singers and traditional musicians with recorded sounds and music. It was sung in Russian and Kazakh. This was Chung's third trip to Kazakhstan, the second largest of the former Soviet Republics.
Western geographers consider it to be the northernmost of five central Asian republics.
Chung is a visual artist known for his paintings, drawings, prints, multimedia installations, and public artworks. Chung is now hopeful he will find sponsors to bring the show to the United States, possibly to George Mason or Duke University in North Carolina, where Chung spent last year as an artist in residence and visiting professor. The trip was sponsored by Mobil Oil Foundation and ArtsLink, an organization that promotes the international exchange and the building of partnerships between arts communities in central and eastern Europe and the United States.