Performance Gallery
A highlight reel of Ally’s best performances. To see more, click the button below to be redirected to her YouTube channel.
The Crazy “Cricket Aria”
It’s her favorite thing to sing: The Cricket Aria from Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio (2007). In this aria, Ally is a nosy (and noisy) cricket who’s been spying on Pinocchio and endeavors to put him in his place. Filmed March 2, 2023, with Daniel Silcock accompanying on piano. Watch out for those dazzling high Fs at the end (when Pinocchio squashes her with a mallet)!
Fiery French coloratura
Fully in her element, Ally performs “Arrière! Je réchauffe les bons,” or ‘the Fire aria,’ from Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges (1925) with Alexsander Ribeiro de Lara accompanying her on piano. In this aria, Ally is (literally) fire, and she’s scolding a child for ruining and destroying things in his home, threatening to burn him with her flames for being naughty. Filmed October 4, 2022.
The Presentation of the Rose duet Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss)
October 27 & 28, 2022 – Royal Academy of Music
Sophie – Ally Dunavant, soprano
Octavian – Clover Kayne, mezzo-soprano
Images: Craig Fuller Photography
Lighting Design: Brett Kasza
Costume Supervisor: Alice McNicholas
Director: Franciska Éry
The Grand Finale: Ally’s Senior Recital
Due to COVID-19, Ally couldn’t give her senior voice recital for a live audience. Thankfully, she was able to livestream it on April 9, 2021. Don’t worry – you can still tune in to watch her performance, complete with some of the best coloratura repertoire in the canon. Follow along with the program she wrote here.
“The most insane piece ever written for soprano”
You guessed it: the doll aria from Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Ally has been performing this since she was just 20, and it quickly became a favorite go-to. Check out this recording from September 2020, with pianist Yumi Kita accompanying her (and watch out for that high F!).
A little chamber music:
A crowd favorite, Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (aka The Shepherd on the Rock). Ally performed this piece while studying abroad in Florence at Il Trillo Associazione Culturale Scuola Di Musica Ed Arte in 2019, and it was her first time collaborating with instrumentalists her age. Performing alongside her are some of her dearest friends: David Green on piano and JaneGrace Lowther on clarinet.