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TRADE / Mary Motorhead

Irish National Opera Orchestra, Elaine Kelly, Oisín Ó Dálaigh (tenor), John Molloy (bass-baritone), Naoimi Louisa O'Connell, Naomi Louisa O'Connell (mezzo-soprano), Irish National Opera

TRADE / Mary Motorhead

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Hugely contrasting, yet complementary in their unflinching depiction of difficult working-class lives, individually these two operas are searingly hard-hitting. Together they represent a triumph...

BBC Music Magazine, October 20255 out of 5 stars

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TRADE / Mary Motorhead

Irish National Opera Orchestra, Elaine Kelly, Oisín Ó Dálaigh (tenor), John Molloy (bass-baritone), Naoimi Louisa O'Connell, Naomi Louisa O'Connell (mezzo-soprano), Irish National Opera

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Hugely contrasting, yet complementary in their unflinching depiction of difficult working-class lives, individually these two operas are searingly hard-hitting. Together they represent a triumph...

BBC Music Magazine, October 20255 out of 5 stars

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  • Release date: 15th Aug 2025
  • Label: Signum
  • Catalogue number: SIGCD951
  • Length: 96 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Emma O’Halloran: TRADE
Work length1:05:11
  • Irish National Opera Orchestra, Elaine Kelly, Oisín Ó Dálaigh (tenor), John Molloy (bass-baritone)
Waiting
Track length2:22
“You finished?”
Track length2:18
“I’m weird about my teeth...”
Track length1:06
“Are you alright?”
Track length1:15
“Who done that on you?”
Track length1:45
“You hot?”
Track length2:30
“I’m glad you’re here...”
Track length2:37
I’m Alright, “So how have you been keeping?”
Track length3:52
Chloe, "So...what’s your baby?”
Track length3:52
“Who slapped you?”
Track length2:49
Dream Aria, “I been worried about you, ya know"
Track length5:54
“Mad. I know.”
Track length1:56
“We going to do this?”
Track length3:41
Not One of Those
Track length5:08
Jason Connolly, “There was a lad in school with me"
Track length5:22
“My son it was who slapped me.”
Track length5:22
A Shining Thing, “You’re young...”
Track length3:24
“But at my father’s funeral...”
Track length1:24
I Wanted Him to Know Me, “When I think about all that...”
Track length4:23
“Pulled the whole fucking thing around my ears...”
Track length2:19
“Only first though...”
Track length1:52
Emma O’Halloran: Mary Motorhead
Work length31:15
  • Irish National Opera Orchestra, Elaine Kelly, Naoimi Louisa O'Connell, Naomi Louisa O'Connell (mezzo-soprano)
  • Irish National Opera
"I live mostly for the past now...”
Track length2:00
“Then there’s the other, a secret history...”
Track length1:20
“My Big History?”
Track length2:21
Landscape Aria - “Now they say...”
Track length4:55
Kathleen - “Me and Kathleen...”
Track length4:22
“Now it might sound strange...”
Track length3:35
Rage Aria, Something had been taken off me...”
Track length1:58
“And now to Red O’Brien...”
Track length3:18
Something Changed, "But something changed...”
Track length5:08
“Anyway, it was inevitable...”
Track length2:18

Awards and reviews

October 2025

Hugely contrasting, yet complementary in their unflinching depiction of difficult working-class lives, individually these two operas are searingly hard-hitting. Together they represent a triumph of bracingly authentic kitchen-sink operatic storytelling.
5 out of 5 stars
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