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 />
EOGHAN CARRICK SINÉAD DISKIN RICHARD MCGRATH<br />
Academy]; Pale Sister, <strong>The</strong> Snapper,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Glass Menagerie [Gate <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Dublin]; Faultline, <strong>The</strong> Anvil, Torch<br />
[ANU Productions]; Incantata [Galway<br />
International Arts Festival and <strong>The</strong> Irish<br />
Rep, New York; Gate <strong>The</strong>atre, Dublin<br />
Galway International Arts Festival and<br />
<strong>The</strong> Irish Rep, New York; Gate <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Dublin]; Ask Too Much of Me [Abbey<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre]; <strong>The</strong> Phlebotomist [Hampstead<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre, London]; Mr. Burns: A Post<br />
Electric Play [Rough Magic SEEDS<br />
Showcase]; and Rapids [Shaun Dunne<br />
and Talking Shop Ensemble].<br />
Film credits include Suited [Battersea<br />
Arts Centre]; Canaries [ANU<br />
Productions]; Torch [ANU Productions].<br />
RICHARD MCGRATH<br />
Répétiteur<br />
Richard McGrath studied at NUI,<br />
Maynooth, the Royal Irish Academy<br />
of Music and the Guildhall School<br />
of Music and Drama, London. He<br />
was a trainee répétiteur at English<br />
National Opera and since then he has<br />
worked with companies including<br />
Irish National Opera, Northern Ireland<br />
Opera, Wide Open Opera, Opera<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre Company and Lyric Opera<br />
Productions. Previous productions for<br />
INO include Alice’s Adventures Under<br />
Ground [2021], <strong>The</strong> Magic Flute [2019],<br />
Bluebeard’s Castle [2018], <strong>The</strong> Second<br />
Violinist [2018/19]. Other engagements<br />
include Fidelio (Lyric Opera), <strong>The</strong><br />
Barber of Seville (Lyric Opera, WOO<br />
and ENO), La Traviata (ENO and<br />
Lyric Opera), Madama Butterfly (Lyric<br />
Opera), Carmen (Lyric Opera), La<br />
Bohème (OTC, ENO and Lyric Opera),<br />
<strong>The</strong> Last Hotel (WOO), Rigoletto (OTC),<br />
L’elisir d’amore (OTC and NI Opera) and<br />
Nixon in China (WOO). He is currently<br />
a répétiteur in the vocal department at<br />
the TU Dublin Conservatory of Music<br />
and Drama, formerly DIT and is a<br />
coach for the INO studio programme.
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