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 17<br />
International Arts Festival, <strong>The</strong> Colleen<br />
Bawn Trials for Limerick City of Culture,<br />
Anything But Love in Belltable Arts<br />
Centre and Buck Jones and the Body<br />
Snatchers in Georgian House, Limerick<br />
and Dublin <strong>The</strong>atre Festival. Recent<br />
film and T.V appearances include As<br />
Luck Would Have It, Fanacht, Harry<br />
Wildand End of Sentence.<br />
NIAMH O’SULLIVAN<br />
Alva<br />
26-year-old Irish mezzo-soprano<br />
Niamh O’Sullivan, praised for her<br />
“bewitchingly beautiful, dark vibrant<br />
voice” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), studied<br />
at the Royal Irish Academy of Music<br />
in Dublin under Veronica Dunne.<br />
She followed her studies by joining<br />
the Opera Studio at the Bayerische<br />
Staatsoper, Munich from 2016 to 2018.<br />
Operatic engagements in Munich<br />
include Hänsel in Humperdinck’s<br />
Hänsel und Gretel, Kate Pinkerton<br />
Madama Butterfly, the Secretary in<br />
Menotti’s <strong>The</strong> Consul and Flora in<br />
Verdi’s La Traviata and a concert<br />
performance of Der Rosenkavalier by<br />
Bayerische Staatsoper at Carnegie<br />
Hall conducted by Kirill Petrenko.<br />
Appearances for Irish National Opera<br />
include Tisbe La Cenerentola [2019],<br />
Third Maid Elektra [2021] and in<br />
Cousser’s <strong>The</strong> Applause of Mount<br />
Parnassus at the Wigmore Hall with<br />
Ensemble Marsyas under the musical<br />
direction of Peter Whelan. In concert,<br />
Niamh has performed Elgar’s Sea<br />
Pictures at the Prinzregententheater<br />
as part of the Munich Festspiele in<br />
July 2019 and has sang both Mozart’s<br />
Requiem and Handel’s Messiah with<br />
the Müncher Hofkantorei. She also<br />
performed the main role of ‘Cain’ in<br />
Scarlatti’s Oratorio Il Primo Omicidio<br />
with <strong>The</strong> Jakobsplatz Orchester<br />
conducted by Daniel Grossmann.<br />
In the 2021-22 season, Niamh will<br />
make her Zurich Opera debut as<br />
Wellgunde Das Rheingold and for<br />
INO will appear as Asteria Bajazet<br />
at both the Linbury <strong>The</strong>atre, Royal<br />
Opera House, and across Ireland and<br />
as Mercédès Carmen. She will also<br />
make her Wexford Festival Opera<br />
debut as Paulina Ein Wintermarchen<br />
before making her debut with the RTÉ<br />
National Symphony Orchestra as Ghiva<br />
in Wallace’s Lurline.<br />
DEAN POWER<br />
Gary<br />
Irish tenor Dean Power is currently<br />
a member of the ensemble at the<br />
Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich,<br />
where he has been resident since<br />
graduating from the company’s<br />
Opera Studio at the end of the 2011-<br />
12 season. After ten years as an<br />
ensemble member, 20-21 will be his<br />
final season as he begins to expand<br />
upon his already growing career as<br />
an international solo guest artist.<br />
Dean is from Clarecastle, Ireland. He<br />
studied in Dublin with Mary Brennan<br />
and répétiteur Mairead Hurley at the
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