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French-born, Belgium based cellist & conductor
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Back to Wonderland: Will Todd's Alice opera returns in an engaging new production at IF Opera
[…] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lara Marie Muller, Keel Watson - IF Opera (Photo: LAIMA)The look and feel of director Lysanne van Overbeek and designer Alisa Kalyanova's production seemed to deliberately leave the Tenniel images of the characters behind. And in an age when familiar characters can get reinvented in a variety of media, this was an understandable touch, encouraging us to see the opera as an entity in its own right.The four Victorians, Elizabeth Roberts, Annie George, Joseph Buckmaster and Henry Grant Kerswell, who lead us into the opera, link the scenes and here change the settings, were all got up as tropical explorers; the other costumes were lively and colourful from Keel Watson's capacious green Robe as the Caterpillar to Katy Thomson's alarmingly blue Cheshire Cat.Lara Marie Muller made a very demure, poised Alice, unfazed by the craziness around her and with a firm hand under the charm. […]
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