Trade / Mary Motorhead [DIGITAL ONLY]

Name: Trade / Mary Motorhead [DIGITAL ONLY]
SKU: SIGCD951
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Featuring two new operas from composer Emma O’Halloran, with librettos by Mark O’Halloran Irish National Opera present Trade and Mary Motorhead. Featuring singers Oisín Ó Dálaigh, John Molloy (Trade) and Naomi Louisa O’Connell (MM) the Irish National Opera Orchestra are conducted by Elaine Kelly.

TRADE In a guesthouse in Dublin’s north inner city, a vulnerable and confused young rent boy sits with a middle-aged client. The older man has blood on his shirt. A lot has happened since the two last met.

Mary Motorhead: Mary Motorhead has been locked in a prison cell after stabbing her husband in the head with a 12-inch carving knife. While he lies in intensive care, Mary reflects on the events that have brought this turbulent rural marriage to such a crisis.

★★★★★ – “Ultimately, it’s the razor-sharp combination of emotional directness and complexity that compels the audience to step into the characters’ lives in all their fury violence, savage loneliness and agonisingly tender love.” – BBC Music Magazine

“Rarely, if ever, does every element – score, text, singers, instrumentalists, conductor, director, sets, costumes, lighting, sound design—all come together. This is that rarity.” – Los Angeles Times

“Emma and Mark O’Halloran’s complex opera double bill Trade/Mary Motorhead is remarkable” – Irish Independent

“Tenor Oisín Ó Dálaigh and bass-baritone John Molloy simply astonishing throughout.” – The Arts Review

SKU: SIGCD951

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Tracks

Irish National Opera

Elaine Kelly – Conductor

Oisín ó Dálaigh – Younger Man

John Molloy – Older Man

Naomi Louisa O’Connell – Mary Motorhead

Release date: 15th August 2025

Catalogue number: SIGCD951

Barcode: 635212095126

TRADE

[1] – Waiting
[2] – “You finished?”
[3] – “I’m weird about my teeth…”
[4] – “Are you alright?”
[5] – “Who done that on you?”
[6] – “You hot?”
[7] – “I’m glad you’re here…”
[8] – I’m Alright – “So how have you been keeping?”
[9] – Chloe – “So…what’s your baby?”
[10] – “Who slapped you?”
[11] – Dream Aria – “I been worried about you, ya know?”
[12] – “Mad. I know.”
[13] – “We going to do this?”
[14] – Not One of Those
[15] – Jason Connolly – “There was a lad in school with me…”
[16] – “My son it was who slapped me.”
[17] – A Shining Thing – “You’re young…”
[18] – “But at my father’s funeral…”
[19] – I Wanted Him to Know Me – “When I think about all that…”
[20] – “Pulled the whole fucking thing around my ears…”
[21] – “Only first though…”

MARY MOTORHEAD

[1] – “I live mostly for the past now…”
[2] – “Then there’s the other, a secret history…”
[3] – “My Big History?”
[4] – Landscape Aria – “Now they say…”
[5] – Kathleen – “Me and Kathleen…”
[6] – “Now it might sound strange…”
[7] – Rage Aria – “Something had been taken off me…”
[8] – “And now to Red O’Brien…”
[9] – Something Changed – “But something changed…”
[10] – “Anyway, it was inevitable…”