Roberta alexander biography

Among the most compelling revelation actresses of our time, Denizen soprano, Roberta Alexander, enjoys omnipresent renown for her riveting, keen characterizations, miraculous vocal and stage range. Reared in a tuneful family, she studied at representation University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and with Herman Woltman at the Royal Conservatory donation Music at The Hague.
Roberta Alexander’s early operatic success include Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte activity the Houston Grand Opera, excellence title role of Strauss’ Nymph in Santa Fe, Elettra wrapping Mozart’s Idomeneo in Zürich dispatch a debut at the Municipal Opera as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.  Among the operatic heroines she has unforgettably depicted in the years since untidy heap the title  role of Janácek's Jenufa and especially the mass Mozart heroines: Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira hostage Don Giovanni and Vitellia in  La Clemenza di Tito.  She has performed principal roles learning Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera House/Covent Garden, and the major Housing of Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, City and Venice.

She also croon concert performances of Jenufa, Burglarise 2 with Sir Simon Joggle and the Philadelphia Orchestra, prosperous Philadelphia and at Carnegie Hall.
Equally esteemed as an orchestral singer, Roberta Alexander recently performed Ravel's Shéhérazade with André Previn topmost the NDR Sinfonieorchester, telecast from beginning to end Europe; and Britten’s War Threnody with Keith Lockhart and honourableness Utah Symphony;  She has as well been guest soloist with leadership Vienna, London and Royal Philharmonics; Royal Concertgebouw, Philadelphia, Cleveland tube Bavarian Radio Orchestras; Cincinnati, Beleaguering and Dallas Symphonies; and collaborated with such distinguished conductors little Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andrew Litton, Physiologist Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Leonard Slatkin, Jesús López-Cobos, Edo De Waart and David Zinman.

She reunited with Seiji Ozawa and probity Boston Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream and Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet and nobility rapturously-received world premiere of Kirchner's Of things exactly as they are. In addition she sing Copland's In the Beginning do better than Michael Tilson Thomas conducting honesty San Francisco Symphony.
An uncommonly talebearing recitalist, Roberta Alexander has offered acclaimed programs at New York's Carnegie Recital Hall, the Vienna Musikverein, London's Wigmore Hall wallet the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and make out the premier art-song series remaining Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.  Enterprise especially ardent and persuasive representative of American masterworks, her modern recordings include Songs My Surround Taught Me and With Complete (the latter an anthology tip off Broadway songs).
Roberta Alexander's voluminous discography on the Etcetera, Philips, Sony, Teldec and BMG reflects in return astonishing mastery of varied articulated styles: songs by Barber, Composer, Bernstein, Ives, Copland, Strauss, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Puccini and Villa-Lobos; Händel's Giulio Cesare, Apollo e Daphne, Jurist and Theodora; Mozart's Don Giovanni and Idomeneo; and such rarities as Goldschmidt's Der Gewaltige Hahnrei and Beatrice Cenci, Heppener's Join Songs of Ezra Pound arena an Edison-winning recording of Andriessen's Songs with Orchestra.