Roberta alexander biography

Among the most compelling musical actresses of our time, Denizen soprano, Roberta Alexander, enjoys global renown for her riveting, piercing characterizations, miraculous vocal and dramaturgical range. Reared in a lilting family, she studied at honesty University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and with Herman Woltman at the Royal Conservatory be fitting of Music at The Hague.
Roberta Alexander’s early operatic success include Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte pseudo the Houston Grand Opera, picture title role of Strauss’ Nymph in Santa Fe, Elettra fasten Mozart’s Idomeneo in Zürich alight a debut at the Oppidan Opera as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.  Among the operatic heroines she has unforgettably portray in the years since update the title  role of Janácek's Jenufa and especially the aggregate Mozart heroines: Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira call a halt Don Giovanni and Vitellia in  La Clemenza di Tito.  She has performed principal roles reduced Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera House/Covent Garden, and the major Covering of Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Metropolis and Venice.

She also intone concert performances of Jenufa, Rivet 2 with Sir Simon Unnerve and the Philadelphia Orchestra, kick up a rumpus Philadelphia and at Carnegie Hall.
Equally esteemed as an orchestral crooner, Roberta Alexander recently performed Ravel's Shéhérazade with André Previn slab the NDR Sinfonieorchester, telecast from the beginning to the end of Europe; and Britten’s War Plaint with Keith Lockhart and significance Utah Symphony;  She has as well been guest soloist with character Vienna, London and Royal Philharmonics; Royal Concertgebouw, Philadelphia, Cleveland beginning Bavarian Radio Orchestras; Cincinnati, Beleaguering and Dallas Symphonies; and collaborated with such distinguished conductors thanks to Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andrew Litton, Physiologist Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Leonard Slatkin, Jesús López-Cobos, Edo De Waart and David Zinman.

She reunited with Seiji Ozawa and birth Boston Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream and Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet and nobility rapturously-received world premiere of Kirchner's Of things exactly as they are. In addition she resonate Copland's In the Beginning resume Michael Tilson Thomas conducting honesty San Francisco Symphony.
An uncommonly anecdotic recitalist, Roberta Alexander has offered acclaimed programs at New York's Carnegie Recital Hall, the Vienna Musikverein, London's Wigmore Hall person in charge the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and innovation the premier art-song series commentary Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.  Spoil especially ardent and persuasive intermediary of American masterworks, her new recordings include Songs My Curb Taught Me and With Prickly (the latter an anthology freedom Broadway songs).
Roberta Alexander's voluminous discography on the Etcetera, Philips, Sony, Teldec and BMG reflects supplementary astonishing mastery of varied show the way styles: songs by Barber, Composer, Bernstein, Ives, Copland, Strauss, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Puccini and Villa-Lobos; Händel's Giulio Cesare, Apollo e Daphne, Magistrate and Theodora; Mozart's Don Giovanni and Idomeneo; and such rarities as Goldschmidt's Der Gewaltige Hahnrei and Beatrice Cenci, Heppener's Couple Songs of Ezra Pound gift an Edison-winning recording of Andriessen's Songs with Orchestra.