Alexandra Batsios

Hailed as a “coloratura tour de force” (Opera News) and possessing a “powerful, searing soprano” (Opera Now), Alexandra Batsios is garnering attention as a promising operatic talent. During the 2020 season, she joined Maryland Opera for excerpts from Thaïs and Esclarmonde and made her debut with the Princeton Festival in summer 2021. Past seasons have brought her to Sarasota Opera, Livermore Valley Opera, St. Petersburg Opera (FL), Opera North (NH), and the Newport Music Festival. She has performed numerous roles, including her signature role Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Leonora (Il trovatore), and the Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel).

 Equally at home on the concert stage, her repertoire includes Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C minor, Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Bach’s Magnificat. She can also be heard as a soloist on the Westminster Choir’s CD Noël, a collaboration of French Christmas music.

 A top prize winner in the 2015 Sullivan Foundation competition, her awards include third place in the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, third place in the Midwest regional of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Graduate Performance award from the international music fraternity, Sigma Alpha Iota, and encouragement from the Giulio Gari Foundation, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, and the Violetta DuPont Vocal Competition. She holds performance degrees from Millikin University and Westminster Choir College.