The First Child
Landmark Productions in association with Irish National Opera, Ireland It all began with the child. Following the sensational success of their first two operas, The Last Hotel and The Second Violinist, Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh join forces once again on the final instalment in their explosive trilogy of suburban horror. The production brings together a world-class creative team with a cast of five singers, an actor, a dancer, a small children’s choir and Crash Ensemble, to imagine a terrifying story of lost innocence—a baby on a beach—and the sea.
Landmark Productions in association with Irish National Opera, Ireland
It all began with the child.
Following the sensational success of their first two operas, The Last Hotel and The Second Violinist, Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh join forces once again on the final instalment in their explosive trilogy of suburban horror.
The production brings together a world-class creative team with a cast of five singers, an actor, a dancer, a small children’s choir and Crash Ensemble, to imagine a terrifying story of lost innocence—a baby on a beach—and the sea.
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THE FIRST CHILD<br />
ERIC JURENAS SARAH SHINE EMMETT O’HANLON<br />
ERIC JURENAS<br />
Man<br />
Eric Jurenas is a graduate of Juilliard<br />
School and gave his debut at the<br />
Wiener Staatsoper, performing<br />
Natasha in Eötvös’ Tri Sestri. Also<br />
at Wiener Staatsoper, he created<br />
the part of Guardian Angel in O.<br />
Neuwirth’s Orlando, chosen by<br />
Opernwelt as ‘Best World-Premiere<br />
of the Year’. Engagements include<br />
the world premiere of Rinaldo with<br />
Ensemble Matheus for <strong>The</strong>ater an der<br />
Wien, Opéra Royal de Versailles and<br />
Philharmonie Moscow, Natasha and<br />
Arsamene in Xerxes at Oper Frankfurt,<br />
Arbace and Fulvio in Catone in Utica<br />
at the Glimmerglass Festival, Fidi<br />
Wagner in Dorman’s world premiere of<br />
Wahnfried at Staatstheater Karlsruhe,<br />
Refugee in Dove’s Flight with Opera<br />
Lafayette, the title role in Orlando at<br />
the Kammeroper Wien, Narciso in<br />
Agrippina at the Royal Opera House,<br />
the Münchner Opernfestspiele and the<br />
Komische Oper Berlin, the title role of<br />
Ayres’s Peter Pan, and Herald in Medea<br />
by A. Reimann at Komische Oper Berlin.<br />
Concert highlights include David in<br />
Handel’s Saul at the International<br />
Handel Festival Göttingen (CD<br />
nominated for the Grammy Awards),<br />
the recital Time stands still at Innsbruck<br />
Early Music Festival, the world<br />
premiere of a trio by Aribert Reimann<br />
at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin (with<br />
Daniel Barenboim as pianist), his<br />
recital British Heroes at the Château<br />
de Versailles Spectacles, and Farrini’s<br />
mono-opera La Dolce Morte in the<br />
METLiveArts series with International<br />
Contemporary Ensemble.<br />
Eric sings regularly with Boston<br />
Baroque, Colorado Symphony<br />
Orchestra and at the Baldwin Wallace<br />
Bach Festival, and has worked with
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