Soloist

Alexandra Flood

The Australian soprano Alexandra Flood studied at the University of Melbourne and completed the summer opera training programme of the Oberlin Conservatory in Arezzo where she made her stage debut in 2012 as Musetta (»La Bohème«) at Teatro Signorelli as well as studying at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz. She was honoured by the Opera Scholars of Australia as »Scholar of the Year« and given the Herman Schildberger Memorial Award, the Australian Robert Stolz Viennese Music Society Award, the National Liederfest Hedi Holt Memorial Award as well as the AIMS Award and the AIMS Sundell Study Award of the Opera Foundation of Australia. In addition, she earned first prize at the Robert Salzer Singing Competition, at the Boroondara Eisteddfod Competition (oratorio) and the Warrnambool Eisteddfod Competition (operetta) as well as third prize at the 2013 Meistersinger Competition in Graz. She currently studies at Theaterakademie August Everding .

Alexandra Flood gave recitals at the Austral Salon, in St. Paul's Cathedral and at the Latvian Society in Melbourne and appeared as soloist in opera galas of the Opera Scholars of Australia and the Heidelberg Choral Society as well as in connection with »Opera in the Market« and »Opera in the Alps«. She sang solo parts in Vivaldi's »Gloria«, Handel's «Messiah«, Bach's St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion, Haydn's »Die Jahreszeiten«, Saint-Saëns's »Oratorio de Noël« and Orff's »Carmina Burana«, among others with the Maroondah and the Preston Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Heidelberg Choral Society. As a member of the Young Singers Project, she appeared in 2014 at the Salzburg Festival as the Milliner in »Der Rosenkavalier« as well as Blonde in »Die Entführung aus dem Serail«.