Irish National Opera 2024-25 Review: Mary Motorhead / Trade

(Photo: Ros Kavanagh) (WARNING: This review features explicit language.) Irish National Opera recently completed its tour of a pairing of operas by the exciting Irish composer Emma O’Halloran and librettist and playwright, Mark O’Halloran. Both works contain intimate psychological portraits of characters who find themselves in emotionally difficult situations. The first, entitled “Mary Motorhead,” focuses on a young woman jailed {…}

Q & A: Emma O’Halloran on ‘Mary Motorhead’ & ‘Trade’ at Irish National Opera

(Photo: Alex Dowling) During the pandemic, the composer, Emma O’Halloran, and librettist, Mark O’Halloran, produced a piece for Irish National Opera’s hugely successful and innovative “20 Shots of Opera.” The work, entitled “The Wait,” is an impressive opera that brilliantly showcased O’Halloran’s compositional skills, in which OperaWire drew attention to her “wonderfully evocative score, with its contrasting densities and textures, {…}

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Irish National Opera 2024-25 Review: Mary Motorhead / Trade

Q & A: Emma O’Halloran on ‘Mary Motorhead’ & ‘Trade’ at Irish National Opera