Alexandra Flood

Australian lyric coloratura soprano Alexandra Flood has been a member of the Vienna Volksoper soloist ensemble since 2022. 24/25 roles include Queen of the Night/The Magic Flute, Frasquita/Carmen, Princess Fantasia/Le voyage dans la lune (dir. Laurent Pelly) and Adele/Die Fledermaus. Past seasons include Clorinda/La cenerentola, Gretel/Hänsel und Gretel, Musetta/La bohème, and Pamina/The Magic Flute. Further appearances this season include Alexandra’s debut with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Vassily Petrenko, and Carmina Burana at Opéra de Dijon.

Alexandra began her career as a young artist at the Salzburg Festival (Blonde/Die Entführung aus dem Serail für Kinder, Modistin/Der Rosenkavalier), working with such luminaries as Harry Kupfer and Franz Welser-Möst. Whilst completing her Masters at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, Alexandra debuted as Marguerite/Le Petit Faust (Hervé) at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, performed Norina/Don Pasquale at Opéra Krakow, Vixen/The Cunning Little Vixen with Pacific Opera, Sydney, Blonde/Entführung at the Bregenz Landestheater, the soprano lead in J. Dove’s church-opera Tobias and the Angel with the Munich Radio Orchestra and Violetta in a new Traviata Remixed production by Lotte de Beer at the Grachten Festival Amsterdam.

Following her studies, Alexandra enjoyed a flourishing solo career, including as Maria/West Side Story in Bolzano, Italy, the world premiere of Moritz Eggert’s opera Caliban at the Dutch National Opera Opera Forward Festival, Nannetta/Falstaff at Malmö Opera, Barbarina/Le nozze di Figaro at Teatro Réal, Jemmy/Guillaume Tell with Victorian Opera, Norina/Don Pasquale at the Bregenz Landestheater, and Elle/La voix humaine with Opera Queensland among others.

In France, Alexandra has appeared with the Opéra de Paris as Female Chorus/The Rape of Lucretia as a guest of the Académie, followed by concerts at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence alongside conductor Thomas Hengelbrock and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. Alexandra has also performed with Joseph Bastian at the New Year’s Concert at the Opéra de Dijon.

In concert, Alexandra has appeared with such orchestras as the Adelaide, Queensland, Moravian, Rossini, National (US), Bochum and Berlin Symphony, the St Petersburg and Vienna Philharmonic, the Southwest and Polish Radio Orchestras, in such illustrious venues as KKL Luzern, Bolshoi Opera Minsk, St Petersburg Grand Philharmonic Hall, Berlin Philharmonic, Teatro la Fenice, Vienna Concert House, and the Sydney Opera House.

Alexandra’s awards include first runner-up at the Richard Strauss Competition (2015 & 2017), 2nd place at the International Haydn Competition in Niederösterreich (2023), and 3rd place at Das Lied competition in Heidelberg (2023). Alexandra was a finalist in the Otto Edelmann Competition in Austria (2019) and in das Debut competition in Germany (2020).

Alexandra is the Artistic Director of the Queensland Art Song Festival, an educational initiative focused on bring performance and practice opportunities in classical art song to young Australians. Alexandra’s qualifications include a Master of Opera from the Munich Music University, a Diploma of Music and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, as well as a Graduate Diploma of Journalism from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.