Join top Irish Tenor Patrick Hyland for his annual Christmas concert of favorite melodies and popular opera classics. Featuring hits from the musicals, famous operas and some familiar Christmas favorites. 

Featuring special guest Ava Dodd.

Ava joins Vladimir Jablokov, Katherine Jenkins and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra as Soloist for a gala concert in the 3Arena Dublin.

The Palestrina Choir

with special guests
St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Girls Choir (3pm performance)
Continuum Youth Choir (7pm performance)
Ava Dodd, soprano
Aidan Gillen, actor
Aleksandr Nisse, organ
Niall Kinsella, piano
Dublin Brass
Mary Kennedy, compère
Blánaid Murphy, conductor

Performances at 3pm and 7pm.

Ava will perform the role of Adina in this production of The Elixir of Love as an ENO Harewood Artist.

Ava performs a lunchtime concert with pianist Carmen Santoro as part of the Wexford Opera Festival.

Ava Dodd & Eimear Harper, sopranos
Jose de Eça, tenor
Shakira Tsindos, mezzo-soprano 
Gyula Nagy, baritone

Extended scenes from
La Traviata, The Marriage of Figaro, Werther, Don Carlo & I Puritani

With arias and ensembles from:
Il Trovatore, Les Contes D’Hoffman, Lucia di Lammermoor, Roberto Devereaux, Turandot, Otello, L’incoronazione di Poppea, La Somnambula

Schubert: Ganymed D.544 , Die junge Nonne D.828 & Ave Maria Ava Dodd (soprano), Mark Nixon (piano)

Ava will join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra as a Soloist in a lunchtime concert conducted by Martynas Stakionis.

Ava joins Orchestra for the Earth as a Soloist for a musical box of treats, interweaving Mozart’s boisterous ‘Posthorn’ Serenade with seven of Schubert’s greatest songs.

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.