Alexander Lewis

Tenor

Alexander Lewis has forged a unique international career that spans opera, musical theatre, and concert performance. Equally at home in classic and contemporary repertoire, he has appeared on major stages including The Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Komische Oper Berlin, Santa Fe Opera, and Opera Australia.

His operatic repertoire ranges from 20th-century masterpieces to romantic and contemporary works. He has performed the title role in The Nose for Opera Australia, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and The Metropolitan Opera (HD Live Broadcast); Laca in Jenůfa for Santa Fe Opera; Flask in Moby Dick with Washington National Opera; and Danilo in The Merry Widow for Opera Australia, West Australian Opera, and State Opera South Australia. Other notable roles include Gritsko in The Fair at Sorochyntsi and Hoffmann in Les contes d’Hoffmann with Komische Oper; Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with West Australian Opera; and John Wormley in the world premiere of Crossing for the American Repertory Theatre in Boston and BAM’s New Wave Festival in New York. At The Metropolitan Opera, he has also appeared as Borsa in Rigoletto and as St Brioche in The Merry Widow (HD Live Broadcast). He returns to Opera Australia in 2026 to join the cast of The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan and to reprise Danilo.

A celebrated crossover artist, Alexander has received acclaim for his work in musical theatre. In Candide, he has taken the title role for State Opera South Australia and with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, as well as the Governor/Vanderdendur for Opera Australia and Victorian Opera. He performed Tony in West Side Story for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, which garnered a Helpmann Award nomination; Tateh in Ragtime for The Production Company; Buddy in Follies and George in Sunday in the Park with George for Victorian Opera; Enoch Snow in Carousel for Houston Grand Opera; Anatoly in the Australian national tour of Chess; Anthony in Sweeney Todd for Opera Australia; Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera for the Really Useful Group; and Frederick Barrett in Titanic with Seabiscuit Productions.

On the concert platform, Alexander has sung the tenor solos in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Tokyo, Handel’s Messiah with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with The Omaha Symphony. He performed Petite Messe Solennelle for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and H.K. Gruber’s Gloria – A Pig Tale for the New York Philharmonic’s Festival of New Music. Other highlights include G’Day USA at Carnegie Hall and Andres in Wozzeck with Orchestra Wellington. He joins Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for St John Passion in the 2026 season.

Alexander is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts’ Music Theatre Programme, the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco, and The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program