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.
PAGE 24 THE FIRST CHILD EOGHAN CARRICK SINÉAD DISKIN RICHARD MCGRATH Academy]; Pale Sister, The Snapper, The Glass Menagerie [Gate Theatre, Dublin]; Faultline, The Anvil, Torch [ANU Productions]; Incantata [Galway International Arts Festival and The Irish Rep, New York; Gate Theatre, Dublin Galway International Arts Festival and The Irish Rep, New York; Gate Theatre, Dublin]; Ask Too Much of Me [Abbey Theatre]; The Phlebotomist [Hampstead Theatre, London]; Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play [Rough Magic SEEDS Showcase]; and Rapids [Shaun Dunne and Talking Shop Ensemble]. Film credits include Suited [Battersea Arts Centre]; Canaries [ANU Productions]; Torch [ANU Productions]. RICHARD MCGRATH Répétiteur Richard McGrath studied at NUI, Maynooth, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He was a trainee répétiteur at English National Opera and since then he has worked with companies including Irish National Opera, Northern Ireland Opera, Wide Open Opera, Opera Theatre Company and Lyric Opera Productions. Previous productions for INO include Alice’s Adventures Under Ground [2021], The Magic Flute [2019], Bluebeard’s Castle [2018], The Second Violinist [2018/19]. Other engagements include Fidelio (Lyric Opera), The Barber of Seville (Lyric Opera, WOO and ENO), La Traviata (ENO and Lyric Opera), Madama Butterfly (Lyric Opera), Carmen (Lyric Opera), La Bohème (OTC, ENO and Lyric Opera), The Last Hotel (WOO), Rigoletto (OTC), L’elisir d’amore (OTC and NI Opera) and Nixon in China (WOO). He is currently a répétiteur in the vocal department at the TU Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama, formerly DIT and is a coach for the INO studio programme.
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