Ilona Karas

She was born in the Czech Republic and studied costume design at the CSSD in London. Her costume design work includes Peter Grimes (Welsh National Opera), Tosca, Jephtha and Rigoletto (Royal Opera House), L'elisir d'amore (Norwegian Opera), The Marriage of Figaro (Nevill Holt Opera), Carmen (Grange Festival), My Fair Lady (Staatstheatre Karlsruhe), Alcina (Staatstheatre Cottbus) and Les Misérables and West Side Story (Pimlico Opera). She has worked as an assistant costume designer to Annemarie Woods for The Excursions of Mr. Brouček (Janáček Opera of the National Theatre Brno) and Madama Butterfly (Zurich Opera), to Antony McDonald for The Marriage of Figaro (La Scala, Milan) and has assisted and supervised on Powder Her Face (Northern Ireland Opera), La finta giardiniera (Glyndebourne), Lohengrin (WNO, Warsaw National Opera), L'enfant et les sortilèges (Bolshoi), The Importance of Being Earnest (NI Opera) and The Queen of Spades (Grange Park Opera).