The variety of styles presented in this short, single-act opera is mind-boggling... In another setting, under another composer, all this might seem bizarre, but such musical references are so beautifully integrated they enhance the referential nature of Carroll’s original narrative arc.

Boyle as Alice delivers an astonishing, mesmerising performance but credit should go to the rest of the cast, who shift constantly between prominent and ‘subsidiary’ characters.

the work gets a performance of extraordinary brilliance from a cast and orchestra at the top of their virtuoso abilities. As Alice, Claudia Boyle stands out, managing to show a soprano of quite exceptional ability and, despite the excessive and denaturing demands typically made of it, striking vocal loveliness.

The Irish composer's Lewis Carroll-inspired one-act opera packs an astonishing range of musical references and styles into its fifty minutes, but this wild ride down the rabbit-hole has real dramatic coherence; Claudia Boyle brings bags of charm and character to the gravity-defying role of Alice, with Presland's deliciously imperious Queen of Hearts and Ewing's languid, lugubrious Humpty Dumpty adding to the fun.