Described as "a superb singing actress," and “a possessor of a generous dramatic soprano instrument and passionate acting skills,” soprano Alexandra Lang is rapidly gaining recognition for her musical integrity, distinct vocal color, and versatility. Her first Ariadne with Utopia Opera was described as "satisfyingly lush to the ears." A native of Atlanta, she currently resides in New York City. Recent Italian operatic roles include the title roles in Donizetti's Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Puccini's Tosca, Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, and Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Ms. Lang has also appeared in the German repertoire as Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio, the title role in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos and Chrysothemis in his Elektra, and both Gerhilde and Helmwige in Wagner’s Die Walküre.
The soprano has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Boston Public Library, The Great Hall at Faneuil Hall, Jordan Hall, the Dimenna Center for Classical Music, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. She has performed with the New Sussex Symphony, Mostly Modern Festival, Marquette Choral Society, Dramatic Voices Program Berlin, Promenade Opera Project, New Camerata Opera, the NEMPAC Opera Project, New York Opera Forum, New York Conductors Symphony, Utopia Opera, Peach State Opera, Nevada Opera, Cantanti Project, the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, New York Lyric Opera Theatre, and the New York Opera Exchange Orchestra.
Following her debut in the title role of Massenet’s Manon at Opera in the Ozarks, Ms. Lang quickly moved into more dramatic repertoire, appearing as Lady Billows in Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring at the NAPA Music Festival and as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte on tour in Georgia. She is an avid interpreter of contemporary music, having sung the title role in Tom Cipullo’s Lucy with Nevada Opera, Ms. Hufstedler in the world premiere of Milton Grainger's Angry Birdsong in Atlanta, and creating the role written for her, Sibyl Vane, in Jeffrey Brody's The Picture of Dorian Gray in Boston. In her first live performance post-pandemic, the soprano performed Maya in the Mostly Modern Festival’s inaugural operatic production: Robert Paterson’s The Companion, at Arthur Zankel Music Center.
In 2018, Ms. Lang made her first appearance with The Metropolitan Opera Guild, performing Mimì in excerpts of Puccini’s La bohème. The subsequent season, the soprano sang her first Tosca in concert at The National Opera Center, and joined the Martina Arroyo Foundation on tour as Gertrud in Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel. In addition, she attended the Dramatic Voice Symposium in New Orleans to coach Wagnerian repertoire with world-renowned bass-baritone Greer Grimsley. She has sung the National Anthem at Boston's historic Fenway Park and was an original co-founder of the New Camerata Opera in New York. In early 2020, Ms. Lang made her first appearance with Underground Salon NYC, where critics took note of her “impressive vocal effects including a lovely liquid trill and a stunning climax.”
No stranger to the classical world's evolving online scene, she was took part in several virtual projects during the pandemic. She was featured in the title role of Beethoven’s Fidelio with Promenade Opera Project, and joined Christman Opera Company for their Voices Raising Voices initiative, a project committed to engaging artists of color, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Alexandra was a guest soloist on the VOICES Music Series: Winter Edition, presented by Cambridge Public Library, and was also presented in recital on Sparrow Live, featuring works by Respighi, Strauss, Barber and Rachmaninoff. Later that year, she launched her passion project, LITER ABEND, a joyful and intimate celebration of German Lied, for which she received a City Artists Corps Grant, sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts. The project continues, with a rotating guest artist for each performance or “volume.”
Recent years saw a return to the Metropolitan Opera Guild for the title role in Bellini’s Norma on their Masterly Singing Series at Lincoln Center. Last spring she appeared as the soprano soloist with New Jersey’s New Sussex Symphony, singing selections from Strauss’ Op. 10 and all of Op. 27. Upcoming performances in New York City include an all-German recital with pianist and composer Felix Jarrar, with a world premiere written for the soprano, and Volume III of LITER ABEND. In September, the soprano launches her next season appearing in recital alongside Canadian pianist and composer, Maria Thompson Corley, at the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Lift Her Voice will be a celebration of black female composers throughout history and the poetry of Langston Hughes, and will feature a world premiere by Thompson Corley, written for Ms. Lang.