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 />
DEAN POWER RYAN McADAMS EMMA MARTIN<br />
Royal Irish Academy of Music and D.I.T.<br />
Conservatory of Music and Drama.<br />
During his time at the Bayerische<br />
Staatsoper his roles have included<br />
Steuermann Der fliegende Holländer, in<br />
a new production of Abrahamson’s <strong>The</strong><br />
Snow Queen, Edmondo Manon Lescaut,<br />
Rustighello Lucrezia Borgia,Graf<br />
Elemer Arabella, Scaramuccio Ariadne<br />
auf Naxos, and Graf Albert Die tote<br />
Stadt plus many more. Last season<br />
he made two notable role debuts as<br />
Rodrigo Otello and Spoletta Tosca as<br />
part of the Munich Opera Festival.<br />
Notable company debuts this season,<br />
include the Salzburg Festival for<br />
Puccini’s Il Trittico, and Opéra de<br />
Lille as Snout A Midsummer Night’s<br />
Dream. On the concert stage he will<br />
join Prague Symphony Orchestra for a<br />
performance of Ryba Stabat Mater.<br />
RYAN McADAMS<br />
Conductor<br />
Equally at home in the world of<br />
opera, symphonic repertoire and<br />
contemporary music, American<br />
conductor Ryan McAdams has<br />
established a presence on both sides<br />
of the Atlantic. Crash Ensemble named<br />
Ryan their Principal Conductor in<br />
2021. <strong>The</strong>ir relationship began with<br />
the premiere of Donnacha Dennehy’s<br />
<strong>The</strong> Second Violinist in 2017 in Galway,<br />
before taking the production to Dublin<br />
and the Barbican in London. In the<br />
2021/22 season he will return to<br />
the I Pomeriggi Musicale in Milan,<br />
Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di<br />
Bologna, the Orchestra della Toscana<br />
in Florence, and the Orchestra<br />
Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI. Ryan<br />
debuts with the Orchestre National<br />
d’Île de France at the Philharmonie in<br />
Paris and returns to the US for a new<br />
production of Tosca in Kansas City.
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