Alexandra Lee
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Artistic Director | @Cimarron Opera
Marketing & Development Manager | @Tulsa Opera
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Step into a candlelit world where voices rise from the flickering shadows and haunting melodies stir something deep inside your soul. Inspired by Schubert’s chilling masterpieces like “Der Doppelgänger” and “Erlkönig,” Music from the Shadowsexplores the eerie, poetic, and otherworldly through an intimate classical vocal music experience. Dare to enter a space where beauty dances with disquiet and each song entices you further into the shadows.
Alexandra Lee Johnson
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Alexandra Lee Johnson
Edith
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Young Frederic, mistakenly apprenticed to a band of possibly the world’s most incompetent pirates, has finally turned 21. At last he is free to fall in love — which he promptly does — and fulfill his duty, which is to destroy pirates. There’s just one catch! Gilbert and Sullivan’s hilarious, swashbuckling romance is a comedy classic bursting with toe-tapping tunes from “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General” to “I Am a Pirate King,” from “Poor Wand’ring One” to “O, Is There Not One Maiden Breast?”.
This sparkling cast features star of major operatic and Broadway stages Meghan Picerno as Mabel; Tulsa Youth Opera and Filstrup Resident Artist alum Chris Mosz as Frederic; Jason Zacher, recently featured at our April 2025 President’s Council Dinner Concert, as the dashing Pirate King; and Metropolitan opera mezzo-soprano Tesia Kwarteng as Ruth.
Sung in English, accompanied by the Tulsa Opera Orchestra. 2 hours 15 minutes plus a 20-minute intermission.
Alexandra Lee Johnson
Mabel
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Jason Zacher
Pirate King
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Biography
Soprano Alexandra Lee Johnson is a regular at the Tulsa Opera as a fourth-year Filstrup Resident Artist. She debuted on the Tulsa Opera mainstage as Lucinda in Into the Woods, covered the role of Jennifer in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and a featured soloist in the Grand Voices concert in 2024, and has been a part of the Raise Your Voice Tour for several years. In 2019, she premiered the role of Sandra in the world premiere of Roger Zahab’s opera Hegemony with Music on the Edge. She has performed the roles of Vixen (The Cunning Little Vixen), Morgana (Alcina) and Rose Maurrant (Street Scene) with UNT Opera as well as performing in masterclasses with visiting contemporary opera and art song composers Julianna Hall, Tom Cipullo, and Robert Beaser. Other roles performed include Nella (Gianni Schicchi), Popelka (Martinů’s The Comedy on the Bridge), Edith (The Pirates of Penzance), and Cosette (Les Misèrables). She received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Oklahoma in 2017 and her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of North Texas in 2020. She also currently serves as the Artistic Director of Cimarron Opera and the Marketing and Development Manager at Tulsa Opera.
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