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 />
JOAN O’CLERY DAVID SHEPPARD ELAINE KELLY<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre Wales and Royal Opera House<br />
before the pandemic turned his focus<br />
on immersive online mixes for YouTube<br />
and experiments in a new performance<br />
format utilising d&b Audiotechnika’s<br />
Soundscape. INO incorporates this in<br />
its 2021 tour of Brian Irvine and Netia<br />
Jones’ Least Like <strong>The</strong> Other, Searching<br />
for Rosemary Kennedy. David often<br />
works across art-forms including Mira<br />
Calix’s Inside <strong>The</strong>re Falls multimedia<br />
work for Sydney Festival, Christian<br />
Marclay at the White Cube, London,<br />
and collaborations with artist Matthew<br />
Ritchie and <strong>The</strong> National’s Bryce and<br />
Aaron Dessner. He has consulted for<br />
Anthony Gormley and devised and<br />
led learning projects including work<br />
with Björk on her Biophilia School. His<br />
design for the Opera: Passion, Power<br />
and Politics exhibition at the V&A<br />
in London was considered a ‘gamechanger,’<br />
with immersive and interactive<br />
sound throughout the installation. He<br />
often collaborates on new technologies<br />
and performance methods including<br />
the creation of an electro-magnetic<br />
harp and paper-speakers<br />
ELAINE KELLY<br />
Assistant Conductor<br />
Elaine Kelly is a multi-award- winning<br />
choral and orchestral conductor based<br />
in Ireland. She was the ABL Aviation<br />
Opera Studio conductor for the 2019-20<br />
season, during which she was assistant<br />
conductor and chorus director for<br />
INO productions. She is currently the<br />
conductor of the University of Limerick<br />
Orchestra, and musical director to the<br />
highly-successful choir, Cantate. She<br />
was musical director of the Dublin<br />
Symphony Orchestra from 2017-19. In<br />
2014 she won first prize in the inaugural<br />
ESB Feis Ceoil Orchestral Conducting<br />
Competition. In concert, she has<br />
conducted the RTÉ Concert Orchestra,<br />
Cork Concert Orchestra, CSM
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