“A voice to drown in”

– Phil Brown, Courier Mail

Australian lyric coloratura soprano Alexandra Flood entered the global operatic sphere as a young artist at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. Since her debut, Alexandra has appeared on stage and in concert in Vienna,Bregenz, Amsterdam, Munich, Hannover, Bolzano, Jesi, St Petersburg, Krakow, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide, among others.

Alexandra’s roles include Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Norina in Don Pasquale, Vixen Sharp Ears in The Cunning Little Vixen, Valencienne in Die lustige Witwe, Maria in West Side Story, Serpetta in La finta Giarniera, Clorinda in La Cenerentola, Musetta in La bohème and Violetta in La traviata.

Also an accomplished concert and oratorio performer, Alexandra has performed the soprano solos in Händel’s Messiah, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and recentlyperformed the soprano solos in Arthur Honegger’s 1921 oratorio Le Roi David with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra.

Alexandra holds a passion for 20th century and contemporary composition, having originated the roles of Miranda / Trincolo in the world premiere of the Operafront and Dutch National Opera Opera Forward Festival production of Moritz Eggert’s Caliban.  Alexandra gave her Munich concert debut performing the role of Edna in Johnathon Dove’s Tobias and the Angel with the Munchener Rundfunkorchester and in 2017 appeared as a soloist at the Klangbrücken Festival in Klangbeschreibung II by Wolfgang Rihm.

In the current season, Alexandra has reprised the role of Norina / Don Pasquale in Bregenz, Austria, featured as a guest soloist with the North Netherlands Orchestra and performed opera gala concerts with the St Petersburg Philharmonic in Russia, and the Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini in Jesi, Italy.

This July, Alexandra makes her Australian main-stage debut, appearing as Jemmy in William Tell with Victorian Opera in Melbourne, and returns to the Bangalow Music Festival as a guest artist in August.