AvaDodd
Representation
About Ava
Irish soprano Ava Dodd studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. She won the Yves Paternot Award at the Verbier Festival in 2023. As a Karaviotis Scholar and an Eva Klenitz Scholar, she achieved a first-class honours grade in both degrees.
Highlights in her 2023/24 season include débuts with the English National Opera as Second Niece (Peter Grimes) and Rosina (The Barber of Seville) and the Opéra national de Lorraine as Fenimore in Kurt Weill's Der Silbersee. She also returns to the Wexford Festival as Sonia in Camille Erlanger’s L’Aube rouge.
Elsewhere she has sung Waldvögel (Siegfried), Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Mirjam in the world premiere of Bernard Land's opera HIOB, and Carmina Burana for the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, where she was a member of the ensemble in the 2022/23 season.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
No Word From Tom - The Rake’s Progress - Stravinsky
Credit: Verbier Festival
PlayingDeh Vieni, non tardar- Le Nozze di Figaro
Soprano: Ava Dodd; Pianist: Harry Rylance Credit: IMA 2022
PlayingJe Marche sur tous les Chemins - Manon - Massenet
Soprano: Ava Dodd; Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Credit: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
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Selected Repertoire
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Press
The Barber of Seville (Rosina)
English National OperaFeb 2024Ava Dodd [...] made a huge impression. If initially her upper register felt a touch hard, that evened out as the evening progressed; more importantly, she has all the agility Rosina requires, delivering a standout ‘Una voce poco fa’ in the first act. Even better, her soprano voice extends down to the lower reaches perfectly (Rosina can also be sung by a mezzo-soprano, but Dodd seems to be the best of both words). I look forward very much to encountering Ava Dodd onstage again.
- Colin Clarke, Seen and Heard
- 25 February 2024