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Keiron Cooke

Keiron Cooke

Associate Director

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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. 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.

Ava is based in Dublin

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Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
Wexford Festival
The Critic (Tilburina) Ciarán Crangle (conductor)
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
English National Opera
The Elixir of Love (Adina) Teresa Riveiro Böhm (conductor)
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
English National Opera
The Marriage of Figaro (Barbarina) Ainārs Rubiķis (conductor)

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Selected Repertoire

Mahler Symphony No.4

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Press

  • The Barber of Seville (Rosina)

    English National Opera
    Feb 2024
    • Ava 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.

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