Ava debuts with Opéra National de Lorraine as Fennimore in Kurt Weill’s The Silver Lake.

Libretto Georg Kaiser

Production Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Coproduction Opéra national de Lorraine

OPÉRA NATIONAL DE LORRAINE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS

Conducted by Gaetano Lo Coco

Ava debuts with Opéra National de Lorraine as Fennimore in Kurt Weill’s The Silver Lake.

Libretto Georg Kaiser

Production Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Coproduction Opéra national de Lorraine

OPÉRA NATIONAL DE LORRAINE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS

Conducted by Gaetano Lo Coco

Ava debuts with Opéra National de Lorraine as Fennimore in Kurt Weill’s The Silver Lake.

Libretto Georg Kaiser

Production Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Coproduction Opéra national de Lorraine

OPÉRA NATIONAL DE LORRAINE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS

Conducted by Gaetano Lo Coco

Ava debuts with Opéra National de Lorraine as Fennimore in Kurt Weill’s The Silver Lake.

Libretto Georg Kaiser

Production Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Coproduction Opéra national de Lorraine

OPÉRA NATIONAL DE LORRAINE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS

Conducted by Gaetano Lo Coco

Ava will perform the role of Rosina in this performance of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville with ENO.

Ava jumped in to perform the role of Rosina in this performance of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville with ENO.

Artists from Ireland:
Ava Dodd – soprano
Aebh Kelly – mezzo-soprano
Dearbhla Collins – piano

Opera Academy singers:

Justyna Khil – soprano
Magdalena Lucjan – soprano
Iryna Melnyk – soprano
Mariana Poltorak – soprano
Sylwia Salamońska – soprano
Sylwia Ziółkowska – soprano
Natalia Tepla – mezzo-soprano

Opera Academy pianists: Klara Janus, Rozalia Kierc, Olha Kozlan, Gabriela Lasota, Daria Siemianowska, Weronika Staszek

Ava will perform the role of Anne Trulove in this production of The Rake’s Progress with Verbier Festival Academy.

Ava joins Deirdre Higgins, Megan O'Neill (sopranos), Anna-Helena MacLachlan (mezzo), Sean Tester (tenor), Dylan Rooney (baritone), and pianists Dearbhla Collins & Mairead Hurley for a concert in the stunning setting of Killruddery House and Gardens. Proceeds are in aid of Friends of the Vocal Arts who host the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition.

Introducing Ava as a new ensemble member, Ava performs as soprano soloist with the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra for this opening concert of the season.

IMA - Internationale Meistersinger Akademie

Open Air Concert with the Nürnberg Symphony Orchestra, Serenadenhof Nürnberg, 8pm; Conductor: Gábor Hontvári.

Ava Dodd Soprano will be performing Berlioz Nuits D’ete alongside two other singers with the orchestra at the Royal College of Music, London this June 23rd, conducted by sir Andrew Davis.

Ava Dodd Soprano will perform operatic repertoire with two other singers in this concert presented by Sir Thomas Allen at the Atheneum club in London, this April 28th.

In the context of a collaboration with Wexford Festival Opera, the Italian Institute of Culture is delighted to present the second of a series of three exceptional concerts that will take place between February and June 2022, starring artists from the most prestigious Opera festival in Ireland.

Hosted in the lovely Hugh Lane Gallery’s Sculpture Hall, soprano Ava Dodd and tenor Conor Prendiville will present a rich programme of Italian language arias from selected operas by Donizetti, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini.

Free event with booking!

Friday 22 April 2022, 6.30 pm

Sculpture Hall - Hugh Lane Gallery - Dublin

Ava Dodd Soprano - soloist

Ava will perform in this recital on behalf of Wexford Festival Opera in Ironmongers Hall, Barbican this Wednesday 9th of March at 7pm.

Elaine Kelly, conductor
Ava Dodd, soprano
Zoë Conway, fiddle
Louise Mulcahy, uilleann pipes
Sharon Shannon, accordion and electric guitar
AIS, singer-songwriter
Rachael Hegarty, poet
Ladies of the House 33 Bodhrán Band
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Programme to include:​​
Ethel Smyth The Wreckers Overture​​
Elizabeth Maconchy Nocturne​​
Mozart ‘Deh vieni non tardar’ (Le nozze di Figaro)​​
Massenet ‘Je marche… Obéissons’ (Manon)​​
Puccini ‘O mio babbino caro’ (Gianni Schicchi)​​
Joan Tower Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No.2​​
Zoë Conway The Desert Storm/Rounding Malin Head and Bearna Mheabh​​
Zoë Conway Ala World Premiere
Louise Mulcahy Liam O’Flynn’s An Droichead and Bean Dubh an Ghleanna (arr. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin)​​
Sharon Shannon The Beast from the East, Blackbird and Frenchie’s Reel​​
AIS Freedom
Rachael Hegarty Unmanageable Revolutionaries
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On International Women’s Day, a celebration of the unique creativity of the female voice in words and music spanning time, place, the heart and the imagination.

Pioneering composers for the concert hall and opera stage, stars of Irish traditional music, the Irish-Ghanaian singer-songwriter AIS who draws inspiration from Pop, Soul, and R & B and poet Rachael Hegarty come together with conductor Elaine Kelly, whose ‘strong musical direction [delivers] convincing and lively performances’ (OperaWire), for what promises to be an unforgettable evening.

Offerings from opera include the ‘vocally impressive’ (Irish Times) rising star soprano Ava Dodd, newly graduated from Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi Theatre Young Artist programme, in Mozart’s ravishingly lyrical ‘Deh vieni non tardar’ (Le nozze di Figaro), Puccini’s achingly beautifully ‘O mio babbino caro’ (Gianni Schicchi), and the rapturous coloratura of Massenet’s ‘Je marche... Obéissons’ (Manon). The Overture to Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers provides an atmospheric portrait of Cornish coastal life.

Joan Tower’s percussively bristling Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No.2 and Elizabeth Maconchy’s Nocturne, a poetically powerful dialogue between strings and brass, eloquently bridge the Atlantic.

‘Virtuoso’ (Irish Independent) fiddler Zoë Conway’s The Desert Storm/Rounding Malin Head brilliantly adds luxurious orchestral accompaniment to traditional Irish tunes, the Cooley Mountains-inspired Bearna Mheabh moving from haunting beauty to rousing picture-painting.

The extraordinary uilleann piper Louise Mulcahy, praised for her ‘ground breaking musicianship’ (Irish Times), pays tribute to Liam O’Flynn with a spellbinding account of An Droichead, and remembers Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin with his evocative arrangement of Bean Dubh an Ghleanna. An undoubted highlight will be the world premiere of Ala, Zoë’s new work for International Women’s Day. For fiddle, uilleann pipes and orchestra, Zoë wrote it “to represent the amazing, resilient and tough women that have come before me, forging a path that allows me to lead the life I do in Ireland today.”

Sharon Shannon brings her dazzling virtuosity on button accordion and electric guitar to bear on The Beast from the East, Blackbird, and Frenchie’s Reel in the thrilling company of the ladies of the House 33 Bodhrán Band from St Augustine School, Blackrock.

The spoken word comes centre stage with Rachael Hegarty reading her poem Unmanageable Revolutionaries, ‘about being a woman, being a warrior and living in Ireland’.

And bang up to date, AIS previews the powerful anthem-in-the-making Freedom from her debut EP.


Presented by National Symphony Orchestra

Ava Dodd Soprano

Ava will perform as one of three RCS Bursary Prize Winners as part of this RCS Bursary Prize-Winners concert with the RTE Concert Orchestra in the Oreilly Hall, UCD, Dublin.

More information: https://www.rds.ie/about-rds/news/15000-rds-music-bursary-for-young-irish-soprano#:~:text=The%20winner%20of%20the%202020,of%20the%20largest%20in%20Europe.

Ava will perform on February 15th and 17th at the Beethoven Hall as a Bolshoi Theatre YAP artists “Anthology of Russian Classical Art-songs. S. Rachmaninov. Part IV” - coach and pianist of the concert Luba Orfenova.

Ava will perform on February 15th and 17th at the Beethoven Hall as a Bolshoi Theatre YAP artists “Anthology of Russian Classical Art-songs. S. Rachmaninov. Part IV” - coach and pianist of the concert Luba Orfenova.

Joana Carneiro conductor
Ava Dodd soprano
RCM Symphony Orchestra

Anna Clyne <<rewind<<
Mahler Symphony no 4 in G major

Mahler's fourth symphony is built around a single song, Das himmlische Leben.

Translating as 'the heavenly life', the song permeates the symphony's earlier movements, before being heard in its entirety in the final movement, sung by a lone soprano. Presenting an innocent view of heaven and its saints, this childlike melody, plus the symphony's relatively short length, make this work one of Mahler's lighter entries in his extensive oeuvre.

Alongside, the RCM Symphony Orchestra performs contemporary fare by composer Anna Clyne.

Wexford Festival Opera - Ein Wintermärchen - National Opera House Ireland

Leontes – Burkhard Fritz
Hermione – Sophie Gordeladze
Perdita – Ava Dodd
Polixenes – Simon Thorpe
Florizel – Daniel Szeili
Camilo – Rory Musgrave
Antigonus – Jevan McAuley
Paulina – Niamh O’Sullivan
Mamilius – Conor Gahan