About Alexandra

“Alexandra Meier used oodles of nuance to convey Dinah’s seething resentment”
- Opera Today, August 2023


"For my money, Alexandra Meier’s Dinah gets the emotional sympathy, with her rich, dignified mezzo-soprano that in itself is a denial of Sam’s claim she talks too much."
- London Grip, August 2023


"Past actions were immaterial to her spiritual love for the condemned man, as the outstanding young mezzo Alexandra Meier made abundantly clear in her stellar performance."
- Bachtrack, February 2023

This season Alexandra covered the role of “Lel”, and played the role of “Tsar’s Page” in English Touring Opera’s production of The Snowmaiden by Rimsky-Korsakov, stepping in as “Lel” for a performance at the Exeter Northcott Theatre. She also reprised her cover of “Berthe” in Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert, which she had previously covered last June in an English Touring Opera/Britten Pears Arts co-production at Aldeburgh Festival.

In 2023 she played the leading role in La Cenerentola with Longhope Opera, “Dinah” in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti at Grimeborn Festival (Offie Award winner for best opera production), and “Hänsel” in Hänsel und Gretel with HGO.

As a 2022/23 Britten Pears Young Artist, Alexandra participated in masterclasses with teachers including Antonio Pappano, Julia Faulkner, Gweneth Ann Rand, Ann Murray and Roderick Williams, and performed in a recital series at Aldeburgh Festival with pianist Hebba Benyaghla.

In December 2023 she returned as an Britten-Pears alumnus to sing the alto solo in Händel’s Messiah at Snape-Maltings Concert Hall.

Alexandra has also performed at Theater Basel in Switzerland as “Der Trommler” in Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, and as “Anneli” in the first production of Dai Fujikura’s Der Goldkäfer, commissioned by Theater Basel.

Alexandra is a graduate of the Opera Course of The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where her roles included “Sister Helen Prejean” in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, “Berthe” in Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert, and “Jean de Moncerf” in Massenet’s Le portrait de Manon.

Repertoire

Opera

BERNSTEIN
Trouble in Tahiti | Dinah

BYRNE
Bloody Murder | Maeve

FUJIKURA
Der Goldkäfer | Anneli

HEGGIE
Dead Man Walking | Sister Helen Prejean

HUMPERDINCK
Hänsel und Gretel | Hänsel

MASSENET
Le portrait de Manon | Jean de Moncerf

PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas | Second Witch

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Snegurochka (in English) | Lyel (cover)

ROSSINI
La Cenerentola | Angelina

ROTA
I due timidi | La madre di Mariucca

ULLMANN
Der Kaiser von Atlantis | Der Trommler

WEILL
Der Zar lässt sich fotografieren | Der falsche boy

WEIR
Blond Eckbert | Berthe

Oratorio

BIBER
Missa Bruxellensis

HÄNDEL
Messiah

HOFFMANN
Miserere in b-minor

MOZART
Coronation Mass in C-major
Requiem

ROSSINI
Petite messe solennelle

VIVALDI
Gloria

Concert

BRAHMS
Zwei Gesänge, op. 91

BRITTEN
Cabaret Songs
Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac

MEDTNER
8 Poems, op. 24

SCHUMANN
Liederkreis, op. 39