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 19<br />
In 22/23, he will finally make his first<br />
appearance at the Zürich Opera in a<br />
revival of Faust following a pandemic<br />
postponement of his 2020 debut.<br />
EMMA MARTIN<br />
Choreographer<br />
Emma Martin is a dancer and<br />
choreographer, establishing her<br />
company United Fall in 2018. Previous<br />
works include I AM IRELAND (RTÉ<br />
Culture Night 2020), Birdboy (2019),<br />
Orfeo ed Euridice (2018), Girl Song<br />
(2017), Dancehall (2015), Tundra (2014),<br />
Dogs (2012), Listowel Syndrome (2010).<br />
Her work has been commissioned by<br />
Dublin Dance Festival, Irish Arts Center<br />
and created work in partnership with<br />
Dublin <strong>The</strong>atre Festival, Irish National<br />
Opera, Noorderzon Performing Arts<br />
Festival and Centre de Développement<br />
Chorégraphique, Toulou se. She is an<br />
associate artist at Visual Centre for<br />
Contemporary Art. She previously<br />
collaborated with Enda Walsh on<br />
Arlington (2016).<br />
JAMIE VARTAN<br />
Set Designer<br />
Jamie Vartan has worked extensively<br />
as a designer in theatre and opera.<br />
He studied Fine Art at Brighton<br />
Polytechnic and <strong>The</strong>atre Design at<br />
Central St Martins.<br />
Designs for opera include <strong>The</strong> <strong>First</strong><br />
<strong>Child</strong>, <strong>The</strong> Second Violinist and <strong>The</strong><br />
Last Hotel [Landmark Productions<br />
and INO]; Bluebeard’s Castle, Hansel<br />
and Gretel, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia<br />
[INO]; Ariadne auf Naxos, <strong>The</strong> Queen of<br />
Spades [La Scala]; La traviata [Malmö];<br />
Eugene Onegin [Opéra du Rhin]; <strong>The</strong><br />
Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko<br />
[Grange Park Opera]; Carmen [Lisbon];<br />
Ariadne auf Naxos [Salzburg]; Dead<br />
Man Walking [Oldenburg]; A Village<br />
Romeo and Juliet [Wexford; Best Set<br />
Design, Irish Times Awards]; Manon<br />
Lescaut [Bilbao and Valencia]; Falstaff<br />
[Oman and Parma]; L’isola disabitata<br />
[ROH]; productions in Cagliari,<br />
Marseille, Turin, Florence, and Scottish<br />
Opera. Film design includes <strong>The</strong> Last<br />
Hotel [Sky Arts].<br />
Designs for theatre include Medicine<br />
[Landmark Productions and Galway<br />
International Arts Festival]; Happy Days<br />
[Olympia, Landmark Productions];<br />
Woyzeck in Winter, Arlington, Ballyturk<br />
and Misterman [Best Set Design, Irish<br />
Times <strong>The</strong>atre Awards – Landmark<br />
Productions and GIAF]; Grief is the<br />
Thing with Feathers [Complicite and<br />
Wayward Productions in association<br />
with Landmark Productions and<br />
GIAF]; Bondagers [Edinburgh<br />
Lyceum]; Ravens: Spassky vs Fischer<br />
[Hampstead <strong>The</strong>atre]; Knives in Hens<br />
[Perth]; Have Your Circumstances<br />
Changed? [Artangel]; <strong>The</strong> Lost <strong>Child</strong><br />
Trilogy [David Glass Ensemble], with<br />
residencies in Vietnam, Indonesia,<br />
China, Philippines and Colombia.
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