Hailed as “a force of nature”, Canadian soprano Alexandra Wiebe is known for her dramatic intensity and stamina. She recently graduated with her Master of Music in Opera Studies from the New England Conservatory where she studied under Bradley Williams. Alexandra begins her 2024/ 2025 season by returning to Cedar Rapids Opera to sing Madame Pompous in Edwin Penhorwood’s Too Many Sopranos, as well as performing excerpts from Verdi’s Otello as Desdemona. Afterwards, Alexandra makes her role debut as Nedda in Pagliacci with the Pittsfield Players at the Scenic Theatre and joins Opera Southwest as an Apprentice Artist to sing the title role in the modern premiere of Carlo Coccia’s Matilde. She then makes her third appearance with Cedar Rapids Opera as Ježibaba and the Foreign Princess in their outreach production of Rusalka.

Alexandra began her 2023/ 2024 season by joining the Highlands Opera Studio as a professional fellow where she performed a self-directed production of La voix humaine. She returned to the New England Conservatory to make her role debuts as Giunone in Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and Vera Tyrrell in the workshop premiere of Mark Adamo’s Sarah in the Theatre, which is slated to premiere with Odyssey Opera in 2025. She was also featured in concert with Boston Singers’ Resource, The Cleveland Opera, and the NEC Liederabend Series. These concerts featured repertoire ranging from Ukrainian folk song to contemporary American art song. She was a Smith Young Artist with Cedar Rapids Opera where she performed in their production of Tosca and was featured in recital. Finally, Alexandra covered and rehearsed Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder with Symphony Pro Musica.

During the 2022/ 2023 season, Alexandra made her role debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Vienna Summer Music Festival while also covering Countess Almaviva in their production of Le nozze di Figaro. Afterwards, Alexandra traveled to Sewanee, Tennessee to take part in OperaFest at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival where she performed in scenes as Krysia in Jake Heggie’s Out of Darkness: Two Remain and Gerhilde in Die Walküre, as well as in recitals honouring composers Stephen Sondheim and Carlisle Floyd. Alexandra also performed the role of Mimì in an abridged performance of La bohème with Canto Vocal Programs. At NEC she appeared in excerpts from Cosi fan tutte, Rinaldo, Falstaff, and The Rape of Lucretia, and performed the role of Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. Alexandra was also featured in concert with the Boston Wagner Society, and joined Mousaverse Opera for their inaugural season, singing Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos.

While at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, Alexandra frequently appeared with the Northwestern Opera Theatre, most notably as Mrs. Gobineau in Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium and the opera diva Silvia Varsecu (Die Fledermaus), singing “Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß” from Franz Lehár’s Giuditta. Other favourite roles at Northwestern include Gertrude (Hansel and Gretel), La Blanche Aline (Les Aventures du Roi Pausole), and Benjamin Cardin (The Gonzales Cantata). 

In the summer of 2021, Alexandra was an artist with Premiere Opera Vocal Arts Institute where she had the opportunity to perform in masterclasses with Grammy Award-winning conductor Caren Levine, NYIOP founder David Blackburn, and internationally acclaimed soprano Carol Vaness. Additionally, Alexandra was a performing artist with Chicago Summer Opera where she sang the role of Lady Billows in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring and performed in scenes as Vera Donovan in Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne and Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier. Alexandra was slated to appear as Gertrude in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel as well as in scenes as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte with Chicago Summer Opera during the summer of 2020, but the season was rescheduled due to COVID-19. In the summer of 2019, Alexandra was young artist with the Russian Opera Workshop where she sang in the chorus of Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans, was featured in their Russian Romances art song recital, and performed in a masterclass for world renowned soprano Sally Wolf. 

An avid competitor, Alexandra recently competed as a finalist in the WKXL New Hampshire Opera Idol where she was awarded a main stage contract in their upcoming season. She is a first place winner of the Edith Newfield Award from the Musicians Club of Women, where she was also featured in recital. In 2023, Alexandra was named the winner of The American Prize in Voice, a first prize winner of the Nouvelles Étoiles International Competition, the third place winner of the Music International Grand Prix Competition, and competed as a finalist in the Carolyn Bailey Argento Vocal Competition. In 2021, she was a top ten finalist in the Classical Singer International Vocal Competition and the Opera MODO Detroit Aria Competition, and received several awards from the National Association of Teachers of Singing. 

Alexandra graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Music in Voice and Opera Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry. She completed her Bachelor of Music under the instruction of Theresa Brancaccio and Alan Darling. In addition to maintaining an active performance schedule, Alexandra is extremely passionate about voice science. She currently serves as the primary data analyst for research being done at Northwestern University that unites vocal pedagogy with biomedical engineering. Alexandra is a published scientific author and her work can be read here.

Off stage, Alexandra can generally be found playing with her doodles (Fergus and Archie), wandering aimlessly through the grocery store, or absorbed in an inordinately sad novel. She is currently based in New York City.