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 PAGE 15<br />
Ivor Bolton, Anthony Bramall, Laurence<br />
Cummings, Ruben Dubrovsky, Maxim<br />
Emelyanychev, Barrie Kosky, Yuval<br />
Sharon, Jean-Christophe Spinosi and<br />
Keith Warner.<br />
SARAH SHINE<br />
Karen<br />
Irish soprano Sarah Shine’s recent<br />
performances include Linda Buckley’s<br />
Glaoch in INO’s 20 Shots of Opera,<br />
and Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff<br />
for Wexford Festival Opera, where<br />
she also created the role of Fran in<br />
Andrew Synnott’s What Happened to<br />
Lucrece? In 2019 she created the role<br />
of Angelika in Marius Felix Lange’s<br />
children’s opera Der Gesang der<br />
Zauberinsel at the Salzburg Festival,<br />
also performed in Masterclass with<br />
Helmut Deutsch and appeared with<br />
the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg. In<br />
2018-19 she was an artist in residence<br />
at Opéra national de Paris, where<br />
she participated in concerts of the<br />
Academy at the Amphitheatre Bastille<br />
and Palais Garnier and performed<br />
the role of Adele in Johann Strauss’s<br />
Die Fledermaus presented at the<br />
MC93 before a tour of several French<br />
cities. In 2017-18 she made her debut<br />
in Paris as Leocadia in Phillippe<br />
Boesmans’s Reigen conducted by<br />
Jean Deroyer, and performed in<br />
concert with the Philharmonic Radio<br />
Orchestra, Bucharest, for the Beirut<br />
Chants Festival. In 2018 she was<br />
awarded the Siemens Opera Award of<br />
€10,000. Sarah graduated with a BA<br />
in Music Performance and a Recital<br />
Artist Diploma from the Royal Irish<br />
Academy of Music where she studied<br />
with Veronica Dunne. Shortly after,<br />
she was chosen as one of 40 finalists<br />
to compete at the Neue Stimmen<br />
International Singing Competition<br />
2015 in Gütersloh, Germany. She has<br />
received bursaries from Siemens,<br />
the Arts Council/An Chomhairle<br />
Ealaíon, Limerick City Council and the<br />
Christopher Lynch Operatic Bursary.<br />
EMMETT O’HANLON<br />
Simon<br />
Highlights of Irish-American baritone<br />
Emmett O’Hanlon’s career include his<br />
role debuts as the title role in Mozart’s<br />
Don Giovanni, Figaro in Rossini’s<br />
Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Kaiser in<br />
Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantic with<br />
Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Malatesta<br />
in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale with both<br />
the Blackwater Valley Festival and<br />
the Berkshire Opera Festival, Silvio in<br />
Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with Opera San<br />
Jose, and Gaston in Disney’s Beauty<br />
and the Beast with the Paramount<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre. Concert work includes his<br />
debut with the New World Symphony<br />
for Unanswered Questions: A Leonard<br />
Bernstein Journey, conducted by Edwin<br />
Outwater. Recital appearances include<br />
being presented by Opera Birmingham<br />
at Brock Recital Hall at Samford<br />
University, and with Sun Valley Opera.<br />
Emmett was part of the prestigious
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