First Person: Veronica Dunne

Opera singer, 87, Dublin

Veronica Dunne Picture: Leon Farrell

Veronica Dunne began singing aged 12 and enjoyed an international operatic singing career until 1961, when she turned her attention of building a successful vocal department at the Dublin Institute of Technology College of Music. As a staff member of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dunne has devoted her life to the training of young voices. The culmination of her dream of providing bursary funds to promising young vocalists is the establishment ...