A Tribute to Veronica Dunne

A TRIBUTE TO VERONICA DUNNE

80th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION CONCERT

National Concert Hall, Dublin - 2nd August 2007 .......................................page 2

Mairead Buicke (soprano) and Karl Scully - Donde lieta usci (La Boheme)

Mairead graudated with a first class honours BA Performance Degree from the RIAM studing voice under Dr. Veronica Dunne.
Mairead is presently a full time young principal artist with English National Opera.

Screen picture: Veronica Dunne and Oreste Kirkop - La Boheme

Miriam Murphy (soprano) - Vieni t'affretta (Macbeth)

Miriam began her studies under Dr. Veronica Dunne at the DIT College of Music Dublin. She has won every major Irish competition. In 2006 Miriam won the prestigious Seattle Opera International Wagner Competition. Miriam's appearances have included Verdi's Requiem at the Barbican, Beethoven's Mass in C at the NCH and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde under Sir John Eliot Gardiner for the BBC Proms.

David Martin (tenor) and Imelda Drumm - Bella figlia - (Rigoletto)

In 1999, after winning both The Tenor Solo and the Joseph O'Mara Memorial Cup for Operatic Aria in Dublin, David began his studies with Dr. Veronica Dunne and Jennie Reddin in the Leinster College of music and drama. Most recently he performed the tenor part in Mozart's Requiem K626 in the final concert of the Mozart Anniversary series in the NCH.

Jack O'Kelly and Kathryn Smith - Bella figlia (Rigoletto)

Suzanne Murphy (soprano) and Colette McGahon (mezzo-soprano) - Cat Duet - Rossini

Colette studied with Dr. Veronica Dunne in the College of Music, Dublin. Recent years have seen Colette focusing on Wagnerian repetoire, making her debut as Fricka for Longborough Festival Opera.

Suzanne Murphy studied with Dr. Veronica Dunne from January 1973 to July 1976 when she joined Welsh National Opera as principal soprano. Performances abroad have taken her to Staatsoper in Vienna, Munich and Koln; Brussesl, Milan, Modena, Piacenza, Basel, Geneva, Frankfurt, Lyon and the festivals of Aix en Provence and Holland. She has an active national and international concert and recital career and her work has also brought her into adjudication, teaching and masterclasses.

Kathryn Smith - I'm Alone (Lily of Killarney)

Giuseppe Deligia (baritone) - O Sole Mio

Giuseppe currently studies with Dr. Veronica Dunne at the Royal Irish academy of Music. He also studies Opera with Suzanne Murphy. He has been awarded the Veronica Dunne prize for Oratorio from the D.I.T. Conservatory of Music.

Howard Reddy (baritone) - If ever I would leave you (Camelot)

Howard began studying with Dr. Veronica Dunne in Dublin and then studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Graduating with a masters in Music.

Nyle Wolfe (baritone) and Angela Feeney - Music Playing (The Merry Widow)

Nyle studied with Dr. Veronica Dunne at the Leinster School of Music. A graduate of the royal Academy of Music in London and Zurich's Opera Studio. Until 2006 Nyle was principal baritone of the Musiktheatre-im-Revier Germany.

Soloists and choir sing "Ronnie Dear" words by Tony Finnegan to the music of the finale Act 2 of Die Fledermaus

Veronica Dunne's recording of "I dreamet that I dwelt in marble halls" is played as the lady herself makes her way to the stage.

Dr. Dunne greets Karl Scully as she moves among the the artists.
To her right is Vivian Coates the Director.

Birthday presentations are made to Dr. Dunne.

A portrait and gifts of flowers

Waterford cut glass

Lifetime Silver Membership of the National Concert Hall

A "Travel Fund" to take her to opera around the world.

Then the most wonderful moment of the evening - Dr. Veronica Dunne, on her 80th birthday, sings Danny Boy to a delighted audience.

"At the end of the programme, the brave Orlando Chamber Orchestra and its conductor Ite O'Donovan were set aside, and the great lady herself gave a performance in different mode, with Jeannie Reddin at the piano.
If there's been as extraordinary, as touching, as unusually detailed or as personally meaningful a performance of Danny Boy given in the National Concert Hall, I haven't heard it" (Michael Dervan - The Irish Times - 4th August 2007)

Artists, choir and audience join in a reprise of "Ronnie Dear" and a fantastic evening come to an end

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A TRIBUTE TO VERONICA DUNNE 80th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION CONCERT National Concert Hall, Dublin - 2nd August 2007 .......................................page 2
Mairead Buicke (soprano) and Karl Scully - Donde lieta usci (La Boheme) Mairead graudated with a first class honours BA Performance Degree from the RIAM studing voice under Dr. Veronica Dunne. Mairead is presently a full time young principal artist with English National Opera.


Screen picture: Veronica Dunne and Oreste Kirkop - La Boheme
		Miriam Murphy (soprano) - Vieni t'affretta (Macbeth)
Miriam began her studies under Dr. Veronica Dunne at the DIT College of Music Dublin. She has won every major Irish competition. In 2006 Miriam won the prestigious Seattle Opera International Wagner Competition. Miriam's appearances have included Verdi's Requiem at the Barbican, Beethoven's Mass in C at the NCH and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde under Sir John Eliot Gardiner for the BBC Proms.		David Martin (tenor) and Imelda Drumm - Bella figlia - (Rigoletto) In 1999, after winning both The Tenor Solo and the Joseph O'Mara Memorial Cup for Operatic Aria in Dublin, David began his studies with Dr. Veronica Dunne and Jennie Reddin in the Leinster College of music and drama. Most recently he performed the tenor part in Mozart's Requiem K626 in the final concert of the Mozart Anniversary series in the NCH.
Jack O'Kelly and Kathryn Smith - Bella figlia (Rigoletto)
Suzanne Murphy (soprano) and Colette McGahon (mezzo-soprano) - Cat Duet - Rossini Colette studied with Dr. Veronica Dunne in the College of Music, Dublin. Recent years have seen Colette focusing on Wagnerian repetoire, making her debut as Fricka for Longborough Festival Opera.
		Suzanne Murphy studied with Dr. Veronica Dunne from January 1973 to July 1976 when she joined Welsh National Opera as principal soprano. Performances abroad have taken her to Staatsoper in Vienna, Munich and Koln; Brussesl, Milan, Modena, Piacenza, Basel, Geneva, Frankfurt, Lyon and the festivals of Aix en Provence and Holland. She has an active national and international concert and recital career and her work has also brought her into adjudication, teaching and masterclasses.

Kathryn Smith - I'm Alone (Lily of Killarney)		Giuseppe Deligia (baritone) - O Sole Mio Giuseppe currently studies with Dr. Veronica Dunne at the Royal Irish academy of Music. He also studies Opera with Suzanne Murphy. He has been awarded the Veronica Dunne prize for Oratorio from the D.I.T. Conservatory of Music.
Howard Reddy (baritone) - If ever I would leave you (Camelot) Howard began studying with Dr. Veronica Dunne in Dublin and then studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Graduating with a masters in Music.	Nyle Wolfe (baritone) and Angela Feeney - Music Playing (The Merry Widow)
			Nyle studied with Dr. Veronica Dunne at the Leinster School of Music. A graduate of the royal Academy of Music in London and Zurich's Opera Studio. Until 2006 Nyle was principal baritone of the Musiktheatre-im-Revier Germany.



				Soloists and choir sing "Ronnie Dear" words by Tony Finnegan to the music of the finale Act 2 of Die Fledermaus


Veronica Dunne's recording of "I dreamet that I dwelt in marble halls" is played as the lady herself makes her way to the stage.		Dr. Dunne greets Karl Scully as she moves among the the artists. To her right is Vivian Coates the Director.

Birthday presentations are made to Dr. Dunne.		A portrait and gifts of flowers
Waterford cut glass		Lifetime Silver Membership of the National Concert Hall
A "Travel Fund" to take her to opera around the world.
		Then the most wonderful moment of the evening - Dr. Veronica Dunne, on her 80th birthday, sings Danny Boy to a delighted audience. "At the end of the programme, the brave Orlando Chamber Orchestra and its conductor Ite O'Donovan were set aside, and the great lady herself gave a performance in different mode, with Jeannie Reddin at the piano. If there's been as extraordinary, as touching, as unusually detailed or as personally meaningful a performance of Danny Boy given in the National Concert Hall, I haven't heard it" (Michael Dervan - The Irish Times - 4th August 2007)

Artists, choir and audience join in a reprise of "Ronnie Dear" and a fantastic evening come to an end
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