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Bernadette Greevy was as demanding of others as she was of herself, writes Michael Dervan

MEZZO-SOPRANO Bernadette Greevy managed for more than four decades to be the Irish female concert, opera and oratorio singer that every music lover in the country had heard of. That was in spite of beginning her career at the bottom of the female range, as a fully-blown contralto.