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Irish soprano.

Ava Dodd studied in Dublin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and in London at the Royal College of Music. In 2023 she won the Yves Paternot Award at the Verbier Festival.  She became a Harewood Artist at ENO and an Associate Artist of the Mozartists.

ENO appearances include Barbarina Marriage of Figaro and Adina The Elixir of Love, Rosina The Barber of Seville and Second Niece Peter Grimes.

She sang at the Wexford Festival as Sonia L'Aube rouge (Erlanger), returning for Tilburina The Critic (Stanford).

Roles with the Mozartists include Sandrina La finta giardiniera.  At the BBC Proms 2025 in the Royal Albert Hall she sings Aksinya/Convict Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

As a member of the ensemble at Karlsruhe (2023) roles included Woodbird Siegfried, Oscar Un ballo in maschera; Soprano Carmina Burana.  She created Mirjam in HIOB by Bernard Land.

Frankfurt: (Priestess Aïda; Madeleine in Adam's Le Postillon de Longjumeau).

Verbier: (Anne Trulove The Rake's Progress).

Opéra National de Lorraine: (Fennimore in Weill's Der Silbersee).