AvaDodd

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. She is a Harewood Artist at the English National Opera and an Associate Artist of The Mozartists.

Highlights in her 2024/25 season include returns to the Wexford Festival as Tilburina in Stanford's The Critic, to the English National Opera as Adina The Elixir of Love and Barbarina The Marriage of Figaro and to Oper Frankfurt as Madeleine, Madame de Latour in Adolphe Adam's Le postillon de Lonjumeau.

Recent engagements have included include Second Niece Peter Grimes and Rosina The Barber of Seville for the English National Opera, Fenimore in Kurt Weill's Der Silbersee at the Opéra national de Lorraine and Sonia in Camille Erlanger’s L’Aube rouge at the Wexford Festival.

A member of the ensemble of the Stadttheater Klagenfurt during the 2022/23 season, she sang Waldvögel Siegfried, Oscar Un ballo in maschera, Mirjam in the world premiere of Bernard Land's opera HIOB, and the soprano solos in Carmina Burana.