Rory Dunne

Competition repertoire

Preliminary

• Puccini: La Bohème - Vecchia zimarra, senti (Colline)

Semi-Final

• Mozart: Don Giovanni - Madamina! Il catalogo è questo (Leporello)
• Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel - Ach! Wir armen, armen Leute! (Peter) 

Final 

• Verdi: Falstaff - L'onore! Ladri! (Falstaff)
• Wagner: Tannhäuser - O du, mein holder Abendstern (Wolfram)

Biography

A Dublin-based bass-baritone Rory Dunne first trained as an actor in the Bull Alley Theatre Training Company Dublin, before going on to the TU Dublin Conservatoire of Music and Drama, where he received a First Class Honours BMus degree.

In recent years, he has been a member of the Irish National Opera Studio, The Wexford Festival Opera Factory and he has been engaged as a company artist with Cork Opera House.

In the past year, Rory has been awarded both Blackwater Valley Opera Festival’s 2021 Bursary and the PWC and Wexford Festival Opera’s Bursary for 2020. He also won Navan Choral Festival’s Young Opera Voice 2019, as well as competitions in Feis Ceoil, Sligo Feis Ceoil, Northern Ireland Opera’s Glenarm Festival of Voice, and several internal competitions in TU Dublin, including the Conservatory’s Gold Medal. 

Performed roles include the title role of Verdi’s Falstaff (Wexford Festival Opera & RTE), Escamillo (Cover) in Bizet’s Carmen (Irish National Opera), Father (Cover) in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (Irish National Opera), Valentine Greatrakes in Raymond Deane’s Vagabones (Opera Collective Ireland), Colline in Puccini’s La Bohème (Lyric Opera Productions) and The Mikado in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado (Cork Opera House).