Alexandra Flood
soprano
Lyric coloratura soprano Alexandra Flood is one of the most exciting talents to emerge from Australia in recent years. Enjoying a Mozart, Bel canto, and contemporary music focus, Alexandra’s career highlights include performances at the Salzburg Festival, Opéra national de Paris, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Teatro Réal, and the Vienna Volksoper where she is a new ensemble member, appearing as Musetta/La bohème, Frasquita/Carmen, Gretel/Hänsel und Gretel, Pamina/Die Zauberflöte, and Clorinda/La cenerentona. Alexandra will make her debut as Queen of the Night and as Adele in Die Fledermaus this season. Further leading roles with major companies including Nannetta/Falstaff at Malmö Opera, Norina/Don Pasquale at Opéra Krakow and the Bregenz Landestheater, J. Dove’s Tobias and the Angel with the Munich Radio Orchestra, Marguerite/Le Petit Faust at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Blonde/Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Bregenz, and Violetta in Traviata Remixed in Amsterdam.
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In concert, Alexandra has appeared with such ensembles as the Moravian, Rossini, National (USA), Bochum and Berlin Symphony, the St Petersburg and Vienna Philharmonic, and the Southwest and Polish Radio Orchestras, in such illustrious venues as KKL Luzern, Bolshoi Opera Minsk, St Petersburg Grand Philharmonic Hall, Berlin Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Teatro la Fenice Venice, and the Vienna Concert House.
In Australia, Alexandra has appeared twice in recital and as Elle in La voix humaine with Opera Queensland, as Jemmy in Guillaume Tell with Victorian Opera, in recital at the Sydney Opera House, UKARIA, the Melbourne Recital Centre, and the Brisbane Music Festival, and with the Adelaide and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, including Strictly Gershwin with the Queensland Ballet. This year, Alexandra appears at the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival and makes her debut with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra alongside maestro Vassily Petrenko.
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Alexandra is the Artistic Director of the Queensland Art Song Festival, an training-based music festival for young Australians focused on fostering excellence in classical Art Song performance and practice.
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Whilst she is based in Europe, Alexandra continues to prioritise performances and relationships at home, including an warm and long-standing partnership with SXS. Alexandra first appeared with the ensemble at the 2015 Bangalow Festival as a late jump-in, where she performed alongside Piers Lane and Alexander Lewis, and has since collaborated with the ensemble in the QPAC series, first in “The Nightingale” in 2018, featuring Magic Flute arias of both Pamina and the Queen of the Night, then in “Heavenly Voices” with Konstantin Shamray in 2021. Alexandra joined SXS for two further Bangalow Festivals, including in 2018 with Teddy Tahu Rhodes and in 2022 with her now-husband, American baritone, Alexander York.
Alexandra is honoured to be included in the 30th anniversary celebrations of an organisation that has remained at the core of her Australian performing life and identity, and very close to her heart.