Why do the sopranos always take the prize?

The full-house attendance agreed the judges got it right

Fatma Said, winner of the recent Veronica Dunne International at the NCHPicture: Frances Marshall

‘Change is good,” a man on radio keeps telling me, so I don’t mind admitting that during the final of the Veronica Dunne International at the NCH I was half-hoping for a male victory. It’s not that I had anything against another glorious soaraway soprano, such as Egypt’s Fatma Said, sashaying away with the €10,000 prize – the eighth female winner in a row – but there is room for a change in ...