Bass-baritone

Rory Dunne

Biography

Rory Dunne studied as a singer and as an actor, and is a graduate of both the TU Dublin Conservatoire (BMus Hons) and The Bull Alley Theatre Training Company. He has worked with Irish National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, Vienna Opera Academy, Cork Opera House, Northern Ireland Opera, Opera Collective Ireland, Lyric Opera Productions, Opera in the Open and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Chorus, performing roles in the National Opera House, Wexford, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, and Buxton Opera House. He has been awarded prizes from Feis Ceoil, Bernadette Greevy Bursary, Navan Choral Festival and the John McCormack Society, as well as being selected as a finalist in Northern Ireland Opera’s Glenarm Festival of Voice. Performed roles include Capellio in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Colline in Puccini’s La bohème, the title role in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, Monterone in Verdi’s Rigoletto, the title role in Verdi’s Falstaff, Angelotti and Sciarrone in Puccini’s Tosca, the title role in Telemann’s Pimpinone, Haly in Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri), Dottore Grenvil in Verdi’s La traviata, Greatrakes in Raymond Deane’s Vagabones, Bartolo in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, David in Barber’s A Hand of Bridge, Boatswain in Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore, Fiorello in Rossini’s Il barbieri di Siviglia, and Dancaïre in Bizet’s Carmen. This season he returns to Wexford Festival Opera to sing the role of Bohumir in Dvořák’s Armida. He is a past member of the ABL Aviation Opera Studio and the Wexford Festival Opera Factory.

May 2022