SCHEDULE
2023/24 Season
BARON TRUENFELDS: LURLINE
26 JULY 2024
After its cancellation in 2022, Lurline by William Vincent Wallace returns to the National Concert Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Conductor: John Wilson
SOLOIST: WEXFORD GATEWAY ORCHESTRA
2 JUNE 2024
Singing a programme of well known arias and songs, Rory joins the Wexford Gateway Orchestra in the beautiful Wexford Opera House.
Conductor: Mary Walsh
MICHAEL SHINE: BALLYBRUFF TRILOGY
29, 31 MAY & 1 JUNE 2024
Singing the Role of Michael Shine in a trilogy of new operas by Luke Byrne and Shirley Keane. Performance taking place in the Belltable Theatre, Limerick with Opera Workshop.
Conductor: Luke Byrne
Director: Shirley Keane
BASS SOLO - PATRICK CASSIDY'S "THE MASS"
12 MARCH 2024
Performing as the Bass soloist in Patrick Cassidy's "The Mass" in Mount Argus Church.
Conductor: Blánaid Murphy
BASS SOLO - DVORAK MASS IN D
11 MAY 2024
Bass Baritone Rory Dunne joins the Armagh City Choir to sing the Bass solo in Dvořák's Mass in D
Conductor: Michael Harris
“Rory Dunne produced a nicely layered presentation of Giulietta’s father Capellio, in which he managed to successfully display the conflicting emotions he had for his daughter, even if ultimately he was hard and unforgiving. He sang convincingly with a strength and purpose which captured his character’s authority and single-mindedness. He has a pleasing bass-baritone which exhibits an attractive rumbling vibrato in the lower register, and produced an expressive performance in which he showed particular skill in delivering well-crafted passages of recitative.”
ALAN NEILSON, OPERAWIRE
“The male castings of Rory Dunne…spot on in all regards.”
DICK O’RIORDAN, SUNDAY BUSINESS POST
“Rory Dunne, as the village priest, brings a weight and sincerity that makes this far more than a character role.”
RICHARD BRATBY, GRAMOPHONE