This much I know: Cara O’Sullivan, Singer

As a child, I had a very mature singing voice, but I thought everybody sang like me.

I didn’t know I’d be a singer. I wasn’t involved in stage schools or singing classes as a child. Elizabeth Foran was my music teacher in secondary school and I went privately to her for lessons. Nobody noticed anything out of the ordinary until the director of the Cork School of Music, the late John C Murphy, told my parents that I could have a career in music.

I’ve had many career highlights so far. Getting an opportunity to sing in the concert hall of the Sydney Opera House was surreal. The No 1 dressing room is huge, very plush, with an incredible view of Sydney Harbour and the bridge. Artistically, singing the Benjamin Britten ‘War Requiem’ in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra is one that sticks in my mind and my heart.