Bernadette Greevy

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Bernadette Greevy (born 1940 in Dublin) is an Irish mezzo-soprano. Her operatic roles have included:

• Bizet Carmen (Carmen)
• Britten Rape of Lucretia (Lucretia)
• Gluck Orfeo e Euridice (Orfeo)
• Handel Ariodante
• Massenet Hérodiade (Hérodiade)
• Massenet Werther
• Purcell Dido and Aeneas (Dido)
• Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila (Delilah)
• Verdi Il Trovatore (Azucena)
• Verdi Don Carlos (Eboli)

She performed all Mahler's vocal works with orchestra over a four-year period in the 1990s in the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 2000, she became Founder/Artistic Director of the Anna Livia International Opera Festival, a Dublin-based Summer Festival.

She was the first Artist in Residence of the Dublin Institute of Technology & Faculty of Applied Arts.

[edit] Awards and honours

These include:

• Harriet Cohen International Music Award for Outstanding Artistry
• Order of Merit of Malta
• Honorary Doctorate of Music, National University of Ireland
• Honorary Doctorate of Music, Trinity College Dublin.
• The papal cross “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice” has been conferred on her by the Holy See.

[edit] Recordings

• Bach
• Berlioz
• Duparc
• Elgar singing Sea Pictures London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley Elgar: Symphony No.2 / Sea Pictures Cfp 5753062
• Handel
• Haydn
• Mahler

[edit] External link

• Anna Livia International Opera Festival