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In 2007 she appeared at Washington DC's [[Kennedy Center]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=PADMOREDAW |title=Performance at the Kennedy Center on 10 January 2007 |access-date=February 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903164754/http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=PADMOREDAW |archive-date=September 3, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> while, in April 2008, she sang for Nobel Peace Prize Laureate [[Desmond Tutu]] in [[Minneapolis]]. The ''[[Toronto Star]]'' described her part in the program as "a series of musical confections smartly wrapped in Liberian-born and New York-based Dawn Padmore's silky soprano" and he concluded: "and Dawn Padmore should be encouraged to visit us as often as possible..."<ref>John Terauds, "West African music intrigues", ''Toronto Star''.</ref>
 
Her operatic roles have included the Countess (''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]''), Lady with the Cake Box in [[Dominick Argento]]'s ''[[Postcard from Morocco]]'', Elettra (''[[Idomeneo]]''), Sister Angelica (''[[Suor Angelica]]''), the Radical Woman in Chandler Carter's ''No Easy Walk to Freedom'',<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.operaamerica.org/applications/nawd/newworks/details.aspx?id=153 |title="North American Works Directory Listing" of 21 October 2001 performance at The Riverside Church, New York City on OPERA America's website] |access-date=February 3, 2010 |archive-date=May 7, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100507061853/http://www.operaamerica.org/applications/nawd/newworks/details.aspx?id=153 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Orunmila in [[Nigerian]] composer [[Akin Euba]]'s world premiere presentation of ''Orunmila's Voices''<ref>[http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/media/pcc020218/eubaside.html John Harvith, " ''Orunmila's Voices'' ", University of Pittsburgh article on chronicle.pitt.edu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713203154/http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/media/pcc020218/eubaside.html |date=July 13, 2010 }} accessed February 3, 2010</ref> in New Orleans in 2002, where her performance was regarded as "a highlight of the evening".<ref>''New Orleans Times-Picayune''</ref>
 
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