Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: Operas were originally plays by the writer and actor Mark O’Halloran
Trade/Mary Motorhead review: Compelling double bill reveals Emma O’Halloran’s impressive instinct for opera★★★★☆
Apart from one passage in Trade where the balance left the singer John Molloy battling to be heard, the conductor Elaine Kelly marshals these small, mixed forces well and inhabits the spirit of O’Halloran’s sound.Eamon Dunphy: ‘Roy Keane has become a professional controversialist, something people used to accuse me of’Naomi Louisa O'Connell in Mary Motorhead. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh
What makes these reflections gripping is an operatic troika of words, music and performance firing on all cylinders. The mezzo-soprano Naomi Louisa O’Connell is alternately terrifying and sympathetic as Mary.
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